19th c. hand-painted Victorian botanical illustration of Vegetable Ivory / Tagua nut & Coquilla nut. Economic botany plants. See notes.

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Plate 10: (49) Vegetable Ivory Palm / Phytelephas macrocarpa (50) Vegetable Ivory Nut (51) Section of - ditto - (52) Coquilla Nut, Piassava Palm / Attalea funifera (53) The Nut turned - Sourced from Popular Economic Botany by Thomas Croxen Archer. Pub. Reeve & Co., London. 1858. So no longer in copyright. - Pages of book are foxed (tinted yellow-orange with age) so some desaturation has been applied and levels boosted to lighten. Patina /texture of page and paper fibre still exists should you want this rather than pure white b/ground. Bad paper stains and some printing ink blobs have been removed though there are some very minor paper flecks embedded here and there.

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Size: 5177px × 6643px
Location: uk
Photo credit: © Marcus Harrison - botanicals / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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