Title: Papaver Rhaas #139
Artist: William Woodville/James Sowerby
Publication: Woodville Medical Botany
Date: London 1790 - 1792
Print Type: Hand colored Copper Plate Engraving
Size: 7.25 x 9
Condition: VG
Code: A328
Description
Description William Woodville (1752-1805) was an English physician and botanist who lived and worked in London for most of his life. For his work in botany, he was made a Fellow of the Linnaean Society just a year after the publication of volume one of his Medical Botany. This classic work containing descriptions and commentaries of the medical plants listed in the Materia Medica of London and Edinburgh was published in 1790 and followed by two more volumes and a supplement-1792-1794. The plates accompanying the text were the work of now-renowned botanical artist/engraver James Sowerby (1757-1822) and were numbered 1-274. A third edition of five volumes was presented in 1832, twenty-seven years after Woodville’s death. This publication added descriptions of thirty-nine new plants and was edited and revised by the eminent botanist, William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865).The three volumes contained 210 engravings describing all medicinal plants in Materia Medica catalogs (the plants used in medicine) as previously published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians at London and Edinburgh.
These beautiful hand colored plates are in excellent condition for their age of 200+ years.There is age toning of the paper, prints are engraved on medium weight paper, bound edge is rough, with clear plate lines and printing, little to no foxing, measuring 7.25" x 9".
Red House Collection Print is on web image only, not on actual print.
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