#105 Corona Imperialis Size:16x10 Opéra en quatre actes et

Opéra en quatre actes et neuf tableaux

Liberation Bonds 1918

This page is originally from an 1862 publication from Frank Leslie's Illustrsated Newspaper and then later collected into a book of his best work

Severn Darden

#105 Corona Imperialis Size:16x10 Opéra en quatre actes etThe crown imperial, alternatively the Kurdish tulip, is in the lily family and native to the Anatolian plateau of the Middle East. The plant produces bulbous orange flowers. This hand colored copper plate engraving is part of a collection of prints from the book Figures of the Most Beautiful Plants Described in the Gardeners Dictionary, published by Philip Miller in London in 1770. There were multiple contributing illustrators, including Georg Ehret.