Mr. Gilbert Knowles. Aetatis 49. The Author of Materia Medica Botanica. A.º 1724.
T. Murray pinx. John Faber fecit.
Scarce mezzotint. 260 x 185mm (10¼ x 7¼"). Repaired tears, creasing, laid on board.
A portrait of botanist and poet Gilbert Knowles (1667–1734), half length, in an oval, directed to left, looking and facing the front. This portrait was published as a frontispiece to his best-known work, 'Materia Medica Botanica (London, 1724), which consisted of 7355 Latin hexameters, describing four hundred plants, explaining their uses in medicine.
CS 212. ii of ii. Wellcome: 1614. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67258] £140.00
Scarce mezzotint. 260 x 185mm (10¼ x 7¼"). Repaired tears, creasing, laid on board.
A portrait of botanist and poet Gilbert Knowles (1667–1734), half length, in an oval, directed to left, looking and facing the front. This portrait was published as a frontispiece to his best-known work, 'Materia Medica Botanica (London, 1724), which consisted of 7355 Latin hexameters, describing four hundred plants, explaining their uses in medicine.
CS 212. ii of ii. Wellcome: 1614. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67258] £140.00