Australian Xanthorrhoea ‘Black Boy’ on Grass Tree Plains. c1874

$125.00

Antique print of countryside – Grass Trees, Australian aboriginals, axe, shot-gun and bottle.

The iconic Australian native Xanthorrhoea, sometimes known as 'black boy' for its tall black stalk that becomes covered with tiny white flowers. Difficult to spell? – sometimes, Zanthorea…

Original fine steel engraving by J.C. Armytage from the sketch by Skinner Prout. Published in London circa 1874 for Carton Booth's Australia Illustrated.

There is discolouration horizontally across the top of the page, but this would not showonce the engraving is framed as it has wide margins, as published. The image measures approximately 13 x 20 cm (5 x 8 inches).

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