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Initial A with birds

Design No. 223551Archival & CollageGerard’s Herball

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Ground Cream

Ink Black

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Size
130 × 130mm
Material
Glazed ceramic, handmade
Suitable for
Indoors only
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The matching plain white
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Initial A with birds

Design no. 223551

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

Design no.
223551
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)
Illustrator
Anonymous woodcut engravers
Technique
Woodcut
Style
Gerard’s botanical woodcuts: clean outline, sparing hatching
Subject
Lettering, Ornament
Pattern
Arabesque
Colour
Black on cream as standard
Form
Single tile
Mood
Formal
Symmetry
Twofold
Complexity
Medium

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Initial A with birds