Description

Original, antique, engraving, hand coloured with watercolours.

Drawn by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770) a botanist and entomologist best known for his botanical illustrations.

Ehret began as a gardener’s apprentice near Heidelberg and became one of the more influential European botanical artists of all time.

Published in 1750 in Griffith Hughes’ ‘Natural History of Barbados’.