Hemlock flower fairy grinding poison with a pestle and mortar.

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Hemlock flower fairy, Conium maculatum, in a dress of leaves, grinding hemlock with a pestle and mortar, while a rabbit in toga drinks poison next to a dead frog. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from "Les Fleurs Animees," Paris, Gabriel de Gonet, 1847.

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Size: 3600px × 5880px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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