Description | Botanical study of a specimen of Abies, common name fir tree. This painting is reproduced, in mirror image, in the Society of Gardeners' book 'Catalogus Plantarum' (1730) (plate 2, top figure, engraved by by Elisha Kirkall).
Green-brown branch with long cones and green needle-like leaves. Painting shows another cone inset, lying on its side. Inscribed in ink 'Abies taxi folio, conis longissimis dependentibus'. Not signed. |