Apricot Prunus armeniaca tree & fruit - botanical print by Elizabeth Blackwell, A Curious Herbal, 1737 art poster canvas gift Surface:Canvas 320gsm The Battle of Jena started

The Battle of Jena started in early hours of October 14th with French attacks on Prussian flanks

"Cosmographia"

atlases and maps

and secured Napoleon Bonaparte's grip on power as First Consul of France after his coup of 9th November 1799

It was in 1636 that he attracted the notice of the famous nobleman and art collector Thomas Howard

Apricot Prunus armeniaca tree & fruit - botanical print by Elizabeth Blackwell, A Curious Herbal, 1737 art poster canvas gift Surface:Canvas 320gsm The Battle of Jena startedApricot flowering plant, Prunus armeniaca tree & fruit an antique engraved and hand coloured print by Elizabeth Blackwell from 1737 edition of her famous Georgian work "A Curious Herbal". Elizabeth Blackwell (17071758) was a Scottish botanical illustrator and author who was best known as both the artist and engraver for the plates of "A Curious Herbal", published between 1737 and 1739. The book was designed as a reference work on medicinal plants for