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BLACKWELL, Elizabeth(1700 Aberdeen - 1758 London)
2 botanical illustrations: "Garden Cucumber" and "The Citrul or Water-melon"
2 colored copper engravings. Each signed in the plate.
In passepartout each: 31 x 21 cm. Framed & behind glass : Each 46 x 35 cm.
Plate 4 "Garden Cucumber" and Plate 157 "The Citrul or Water-melon", from: "Herbarium Blackwellianum emendatum et auctum", published by Nuremberg physician and pharmacist Christoph Jacob Trew from 1747/49. Each a little foxing, sheet each a little browned.
British draftswoman and engraver who created a major work of illustration of botany with their quality depictions of plants in "A Curious Herbal" (1737 - 1739).
Limit 120 €
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