1838 Gigantic Viper's Bugloss, F.W. Smith for Paxton, botanical

Echium Giganteum (Gigantic Viper's Bugloss)

London, 1838.

22.7 x 15.5 cm

Botanical native of the Canary Islands. Fine hand-colored engraving from Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. Plates from this series claim their honored place as highlights of Victorian botanical illustration. As the nineteenth century ushered in a profound era of plant hunting and gathering worldwide, newly discovered botanical specimens were brought to Europe for cultivation.