Opuntia, Folio Oblongo Media Tourn Prickly Pear Cactus

by Georg Dionysius Ehret

$17,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A superb prickly pear watercolor by the master botanical artist Georg Dionysius Ehret. Ehret was the dominant influence in botanical art during the middle of the eighteenth-century. His greatest merit is that he succeeded in a manner few other botanical artists have, in being at once both botanist and artist. Great Flower Books Rightly, his work is highly prized both for its botanical accuracy and aesthetic appeal. His career as a botanical artist began while working as a

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