Flora Londinensis Botanical engraving Anagallis caerulea. Blue Pimpernel. c1820

$150.00

Blue Pimpernel. Anagallis caerulea. Flora Londinensis engraving circa 1820.

Beautiful original folio-size hand-coloured copper engraving (after the earlier engravings published 1775-1779 by William Curtis (1746-1799)), for “Flora Londinensis, containing a history of the plants indigenous to Great Britain, illustrated by figures of the natural size” published in London between 1817 and 1828 by George Graves F.L.S. and eminent botanist, William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865).

Page size 485cm x 300cm (19" x 12")