Tropical Plants Tea Towel Antique Botanical Print 100% Cotton Blue mushroom engraved and hand-coloured this book

engraved and hand-coloured this book to raise funds to have her husband released from a debtor’s prison

Designed and printed in the UK

He apparently drew them without ever having set foot outside of Europe

Massachusetts in1787

Tropical Plants Tea Towel Antique Botanical Print 100% Cotton Blue mushroom engraved and hand-coloured this bookThis beautiful artwork was painted by Christian Gottleib Geissler for the Swiss Botanist Johannes Gessner who created the Tabulae Phytographicae published in 1795 containing dozens of scientific illustrations of plants. It is digitally printed onto 100% quality half Panama cotton fabric producing a stunning and hard wearing tea towel. Ideal as a unique gift. Dimensions: 50 x 70cm 100% cotton Wash at 40 degrees Hanging loop in top left hand corner