Hand-colored print of Curcuma Tumreric . Plate 396 from Herbarium Blackwellianum

by Elizabeth Blackwell

$185 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

1 vols. c. 14 x 9 inches. Fine. Great Flower Books p.75; Women of Flowers, p. 73. Item #365364 Mrs. Blackwell had taken on the task of producing an up-to-date illustrated text of medicinal plants for the purpose of extricating her husband from debtor's prison. Producing the original watercolors, engraving the plates and then handcoloring the engravings, Blackwell raised the money to regulate her husband's affairs, but to little avail since he

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