Banksia, Bancsie
Copper-line engraving. 1823. 230mm by 160mm (image) 330mm by 230mmm (sheet). From ‘Histoire Naturelle, Botanique’ part of J.B.A.P.M. de Lamarck & J.L.M.Poiret, 'Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique. Botanique' (1791-1834). The images were taken from engravings after drawings by the German artist John Paul Nusbiegel which were based on banksias collected by Sir Joseph Banks. They were published in Joseph Gaertner's 'De Fructibus et seminibus plantarum', 1788-1792, and were the first engravings of banksias ever published.
Ref : Capturing Flora: 300 years of Australian botanical art, ed Morrison, Gordon p38,40,41. CONDITION : One faint crease. Stitching holes on far left of sheet. Item #3999
Price: $320.00