Veratre noir. (Black Hellebore).

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• ARTIST: Édouard Hocquart

• PUBLISHER: Published by Chez B. Cormon et Blanc, Libraires. Paris.

• MEDIUM: Stipple engraving, printed in color and finished by hand.

  DATE: 1835.

• EDITION SIZE: Paper size 12 1/2 x 9" (31.6 x 23 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: "Hocquart del et sculp". Plate 6 from PHYTOGRAPHIE MEDICALE ('Medical phytography, a history of powerful substances and poisons from the plant kingdom') by Joseph Roques. (1772-1850). Commonly called the Christmas rose, due to an old legend that it sprouted in the snow from the tears of a young girl who had no gift to give the Christ child in Bethlehem

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• CONDITION: Good condition.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Natural History , Botanicals