1830 Jacob’s Ladder, Watts, copper engraving, fine original hand colour, botany

Polemonium

Polemonium, commonly called Jacob's ladders or Jacob's-ladders, is a genus of between 25 and 40 species of flowering plants in the family Polemoniaceae, native to cool temperate to arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere. 

Edwards, Sydenham (editor).

M. Hart (del). J. Watts (sc).

London. J.Ridgway. 1830.

Engraving, original hand colour.

Image approximately 8 x 5 inches on sheet 9 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches. 

Very good condition. 

Yellow orchid, plate 1299 from Sydenham Edwards' "The Botanical Register." A native of Nepal.