Babiana Villosa 1830 NICE coloured litho Sertum Botanicum Brussels

Babiana Villosa

NICE hand-colored lithograph 27x37 cm under passepartout, slightly soiled & waterstained at border

Plate IIICL from Sertum Botanicum. Collection des plants remarquables par leur utilité, leur élégance, leur éclat ou leur nouveauté, consistant en six cents planches soigneusement lithographiées et coloriées... par une société de botanistes. Drawn by G. Severyns, lithography by De Burggraaff. Brussels: Pierre van Geel etc (1828-1833).

Sertum Botanicum is one of the great botanical works to come out of Belgium. These lovely botanical images, with their fine detail and pleasing composition, depict ornamental flowering plants and others introduced into cultivation in the 1830s.