Esparto grass with a feathered spike

Design No. 223378Archival & CollageGerard’s Herball

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Esparto grass with a feathered spike

Design no. 223378

Irises, daffodils, grasses and grain from Gerard’s Herball of 1636, each shown whole, flower to root.

Design no.: 223378
Department: Archival & Collage
Collection: Gerard’s Herball
Source: John Gerard, enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson, The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes (London, 1636), page 43
Illustrator: Anonymous woodcut engravers
Technique: Woodcut
Style: Gerard’s botanical woodcuts: clean outline, sparing hatching
Subject: Plants
Colour: Black on cream as standard
Form: Single tile
Mood: Pastoral
Symmetry: Asymmetric
Complexity: Medium