Hand-colored plate of nine herbs in a grid, including white and red poppies, a fern and a primrose.

Culpeper's Complete Herbal: plate of nine herbs

Hand-colored plate of nine herbs arranged in a three-by-three grid on cream paper, each labelled in small print, including a white poppy, a red poppy, a fern and a primrose. Leaves and stems are shaded in green and blue, with flowers in white, blue and red, printed as an engraving from a herbal.

Artist: Nicholas Culpeper
Date: 1850
Medium
Source: Wellcome Collection
Size: 3143 × 4000 px

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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1850.
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

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