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Sweet flag with its rootstock

Design No. 223410Archival & CollageGerard’s Herball

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Ground Cream

Ink Black

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Size
130 × 130mm
Material
Glazed ceramic, handmade
Suitable for
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Sweet flag with its rootstock

Design no. 223410

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

Design no.
223410
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 62
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
Symmetry
Asymmetric
Complexity
Complex

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Sweet flag with its rootstock