Price: $350.00
SKU: 49251
PUBLISHER: Published by Mathew Merian, Frankfurt.
MEDIUM: Copper engraving, hand colored,
DATE: 1641.
EDITION SIZE: Platemark 10 5/8 x 6 5/8" (270 x 170 mm).
DESCRIPTION: From Johann Theodor De Bry's "Florilegium Renovatun et Aucten." De Bry's florilegia were along the earliest illlustrated botanical works.<br><br> Cyclamen, more commonly known as sowbread, is a tuber type of perennial flower. The flower has ancient references to the 1st century A.D., when Pliny the Elder wrote about it, as the plant was believed to stop evil magic.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Good condition and color.
REFERENCE: De Belder #93.
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