Engraved botanical plate of gourds, cucumbers and pumpkins – Historic Print
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Description
Engraved botanical plate of gourds, cucumbers and pumpkins comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Engraved botanical plate of gourds, cucumbers and pumpkins
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Lead with what sets this plate apart: its subject is the cucurbit family, the gourds, cucumbers and pumpkins that were grown across much of the world long before engraving made it possible to study them closely. Plates like this one were typically made for herbals, seed catalogs and agricultural treatises, where accurate drawings helped growers and botanists tell related species apart by leaf shape, tendril structure and fruit form. Engravers worked by cutting lines into copper, which allowed fine hatching to render the ribbed skins and curling stems that a woodcut could not capture as delicately. Look closely at the variation in fruit outline on the page, since that was often the point of comparison.
| Original scan | 1,143 × 1,440 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g05359_ |
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