Engraved botanical plate of numbered trees and plants, Plate 2 – Vintage Print
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This rare historic image captures Engraved botanical plate of numbered trees and plants, Plate 2 in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Engraved botanical plate of numbered trees and plants, Plate 2
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Plate 2 is one of a numbered series of engraved botanical illustrations, each sheet showing trees and plants drawn with careful attention to leaf shape, bark, and flower structure. Numbered plates like this were a core tool of natural history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when botanists and educators needed accurate images to identify and classify species that most readers would never see in the field. Engraving on copper or steel allowed fine lines to show texture and proportion, and the number on the sheet ties it to a companion text that would name each specimen. Looking closely, the layout of the figures on the page reflects the era's taste for order and systematic comparison.
| Original scan | 1,140 × 1,455 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g05364_ |
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