Apricot Prunus armeniaca tree & fruit - botanical print by Elizabeth Blackwell, A Curious Herbal, 1737 art poster canvas gift Surface:Canvas 320gsm Josiah Whitbread was a London

Josiah Whitbread was a London based map publisher

was knighted in 1872 and became a member of Royal Academy of Arts in 1876

Later the sailors saw its tail as well

atlases and maps

Apricot Prunus armeniaca tree & fruit - botanical print by Elizabeth Blackwell, A Curious Herbal, 1737 art poster canvas gift Surface:Canvas 320gsm Josiah Whitbread was a LondonApricot flowering plant, Prunus armeniaca tree & fruit an antique engraved and hand coloured print by Elizabeth Blackwell from 1737 edition of her famous Georgian work "A Curious Herbal". Elizabeth Blackwell (17071758) was a Scottish botanical illustrator and author who was best known as both the artist and engraver for the plates of "A Curious Herbal", published between 1737 and 1739. The book was designed as a reference work on medicinal plants for