Spiny Indian nightshade, Solanum indicum spinosum flore boraginis, with beetle. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from "Nederlandsch Bloemwerk" (Dutch Flower Arrangements), Amsterdam, J.B. Elwe, 1794. Illustration copied from a work by one of the outstanding French flower painters of the 17th century, Nicolas Robert (1614-1685), entitled "Variae ac multiformes florum species.. Diverses fleurs," Paris, 1660.
Spiny Indian nightshade, Solanum indicum spinosum flore boraginis, with beetle. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from "Nederlandsch Bloemwerk" (Dutch Flower Arrangements), Amsterdam, J.B. Elwe, 1794. Illustration copied from a work by one of the outstanding French flower painters of the 17th century, Nicolas Robert (1614-1685), entitled "Variae ac multiformes florum species.. Diverses fleurs," Paris, 1660.