SIMPLE LEAVES. Can be Modern Design when framed! Antique engraving c1816.

$40.00

A collection of 38 different Leaf Shapes. Botanical engraving c1816 by W. Swift for Thomas Green's Herball. It is a great companion engraving to the next one – also of Leaf Shapes.

Rare original stippled copperplate engraving from Green's Universal Herbal – The Universal Herbal, or, Botanical, Medical and Agricultural Dictionary by Thomas Green, published by Nuttall, Fisher & Co. Liverpool, England in 1816.

This important work contained all the known plants in the World, each arranged according to the Linnaean system, and specified the Uses to which they are or may be applied, whether as Food, as Medicine, or in the Arts and Manufacture. The copperplate engravings produced for this work were some of the finest and most detailed botanical specimens engraved in the early part of the 19th century. 

The fine hand-colour, is early, but not from the time of publication. It certainly adds to the decorativeness of the engraving. Size of the engraving is 25 x 21 cm (10 x 8.5 inches).