Antique Print - Sowerby - Trifolium Ornithopodioides - Bird's-foot Clover - F1 "Tortula Fubulata"

"Tortula Fubulata"

This piece serves as an important example of the ways in which art can reflect and interpret the cultural and historical contexts in which it was created

139 cm x 99 cm / 143 cm x 103 cm

"Ophrys Insectifera"

The work was drawn and lithographed by the artists Peter Åkerlund and

Antique Print - Sowerby - Trifolium Ornithopodioides - Bird's-foot Clover - F1 "Tortula Fubulata""Trifolium Ornithopodioides" This original hand coloured engraving is from James Sowerby's English Botany or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms and Places of Growth, published by J. Davis in London in 1790 1814. First edition of the extensively illustrated botanical series. The reverse side of this engraving is blank. The text page on the third picture, below, is an original page from this work with original