Grid of twenty numbered chromolithograph plates showing trees, wheat, barley, lily, thistle and other plants on cream paper.

Twenty trees, herbs and shrubs of the Bible, chromolithograph c. 1850

A grid of twenty numbered botanical plates arranged in rows, showing trees, grasses, flowering herbs and shrubs such as lily, wheat, barley and thistle on a cream background. Each specimen is painted in bright, realistic colour with plate numbers and printed labels, consistent with a nineteenth-century chromolithograph book plate.

Artist: McFarlane & Erskine (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Date: 1850
Medium: Book illustrations Chromolithographs
Source: Wellcome Collection
Size: 2843 × 4000 px

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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1850.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

19th century book illustration botanical illustration chromolithograph trees lily thistle wheat herbs