Name: Antique Print-GRASS-LOTUS-RUSH-WATER LILY-BAMBOO-REED-CORN-Oken-1833
SKU: PCO-28770
Availability: InStock

Antique Print-GRASS-LOTUS-RUSH-WATER LILY-BAMBOO-REED-CORN-Oken-1833

€55.00

‘PLATE X. RINDEN-PFLANZEN – GRAESER (..).’

– This original antique print shows various grass plant species including Nelumbium (Lotus), Butomus (Flowering Rush), Scirpus (Bulrush), Sorghum (Milo), Phleum (Timothy Grass), Water Lily, Water Lettuce, Bamboo, Papyrus, Reed, Corn, Barley etc.

In stock

SKU: PCO-28770 Category: Botanical Tag: Botanical

Description

Medium: Lithograph with original old hand colouring. on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 27 x 34 cm (10.63 x 13.39 inch). Image size: 23 x 30 cm. (9.06 x 11.81 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing/staining. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

GRASS-LOTUS-RUSH-WATER LILY-BAMBOO-REED-CORN | PCO-A194-39

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This old antique print originates from: ‘Abbildungen zu Oken’s allgemeiner Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande’, published by Hoffmann’sche Verlags-Buchhandlung in Stuttgart, Germany 1833 ? 1841.

Biography artist: Lorenz Oken (1779-1851), was a German transcendental naturalist, philosopher & physician. Born Okenfuss, the son of a farmer, he simplified his name to Oken while at medical school in Freiburg, Bavaria. Oken was a prolific & vocal writer, lecturer and theorist, publishing many philosophical treatises during his life. His masterpiece and lasting legacy to the world is the 13-volume ‘Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande’ (Natural History for all Social Ranks), first published between 1833 and 1841.