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The Carrot

Order Item FWF-P61

$15.00

Antique botanical print from series titled "Familiar Wild Flowers" published by Cassell and Company, Ltd between 1878-1884. Illustrated and described by Frederick Edward Hulme who was born March 1841 in Hanley, Staffordshire, England and moved to London in 1844. He began studying art at South Kensington in 1858. In 1870 he was hired as art and drawing master at Marlborough College. In 1886 he was made professor of geometrical drawing at King's College. In 1896 he was made professor of geometrical and freehand drawing, again at King's College. He published and illustrated several works before passing away April 1909 in Kew, England.

This particular print is of a flowering plant, Daucus carota. The wild Carrot is very generally distributed throughout Britain and may be found in flower throughout the whole summer. The root is spindle-shaped, slender, firm, somewhat tough and woody, yellowish in colour, penetrating some distance into the ground and having only a few lateral rootlets. If any of our readers will rescue just the head of a carrot, then place it in a small saucer of water, in a short time it will throw up a very graceful and delicate tuft of leaves. We have seen very pretty winter ornaments made by suspending these carrot-heads in damp moss.

Original print measures 5" wide X 7 1/2" tall. Depending upon the personal taste of the buyer, the print may have a good frameable area of 4" X 6", due to a small tear near the lower right corner. Still overall, it is in excellent condition for the age. This is not a reproduction. Four descriptive text pages containing two charming black and white drawings are included with the purchase of this fine print.

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