Friday, 2 October 2026

I don't know why, but pineapples are trying to escape from the pages of one of the greatest botanical books of the eighteenth century

I don't know why, but pineapples are trying to escape from the pages of one of the greatest botanical books of the eighteenth century

The hand-coloured botanical atlas Plantae Selectae by Christoph Jacob Trew, 1771. The engravings were made after drawings by the outstanding botanical draughtsman Georg Dionysius Ehret

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