Petroselinum Macedonicum: Elizabeth Blackwell 1749

Author: Elizabeth Blackwell Date: 1749 Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Condition: Very good Inches: 9" x 13 1/2" overall Centimeters: 22.86 x 34.29 cm overall Product ID: 001489 From A curious herbal: containing five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick engraved on folio copper plates, after drawings taken from the life / by Elizabeth Blackwell. To which is added a short description of ye plants and their common uses in physick. London, 1737–1739These plates are from the seminal botanical work A curious herbal: etc., a classic of botanical illustration, published in 1737 in London by Elizabeth Blackwell. Containing 500 plates, this reference book for exotic and curious plants from the New World was the first of its kind, and was commercially successful, by virtue of the beauty of the images, their usefulness, and Blackwell's diligent marketing efforts.The book was a collaboration with her husband, Alexander, a docto