Whitebeam and wild service trees
Whitebeam tree, Aria edulis 1 and wild service tree, chequers, and checker tree, Sorbus torminalis 2. Branch with blossom, flower, leaf, fruit and seed. The botanicals were drawn by Henriette and Conrad Westermayr, F. Gotz and C. Ermer. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1, 200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. published from 1790-1830
Picture No
14009166
Media ID
45761008
Size
4963px x 6403px
(6.3MB)
Credit
©Florilegius/Mary Evans
Source
German school
