‘Pisum’
1750
Elizabeth Blackwell (1707 - 1758, British) , Illustrator
RCN 28651
height (print): 300mm
width (print): 190mm
width (print): 190mm
Botanical study of the ‘Pisum’ (pea). Plate 83 from Herbarium Blackwellianum, vol.1 [Centuria I], by Elizabeth Blackwell (Nuremberg, 1750).
Elizabeth Blackwell's herbal for apothecaries, including many species recently discovered in the Americas, was first issued in weekly parts in 1730s London. Elizabeth drew the plants from specimens provided by the Chelsea Physic Garden, engraving the copper plates for printing and hand-colouring the printed images. This picture is from the revised and enlarged edition, edited by Christopher Jacob Trew FRS, published in Germany 20 years later.