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Tree Tattoo design & Model trend for 2017
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(Pine Tree) Pinus cembra (Swiss or Arolla Pine) Edinburgh & London: (1866). Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 21 1/2 x 15 13/16 inches. A very fine plate from Ravenscroft’s ‘The Pinetum Britannicum. A Descriptive Account of Hardy Coniferous Trees’Ravenscroft’s work is the third (in order of publication) of the three great coniferous iconographies of the nineteenth century, following Bedford and Lambert. The very fine plates fall into two categories: botanical studies of details ..
