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    Image number: RS.18900
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    'Viscum viscus quercinus'

    Date
    1750
    Creator
    Elizabeth Blackwell (1707 - 1758, British) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Library reference
    28651
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 375mm
    width (page): 228mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > plant
    Description
    Botanical study of common mistletoe, Viscum album, listed here as Viscum viscus quercinus.

    Plate 184 from Elizabeth Blackwell's Vermehrtes und verbessertes Blackwellisches Krauter-Buch..., volume two; the German version of her A Curious Herbal (1737-1739), a reference work on medicinal plants.

    Inscribed below: 'Viscum viscus quercinus [1.2. Beer 3.5. Feern] Lichen-Blistell.'

    Elizabeth Blackwell (1707 –1758), Scottish botanical illustrator and author, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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