The botanic garden : a poem ; with philosophical notes
Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden is a poem with philosophical notes on natural history, published in Dublin by J. Moore, and recorded here with the date 1700 though Darwin lived 1731 to 1802. The plate shows botanical drawings in pen and ink on a tan ground: a flower with a long curved pistil and stamens, a star-shaped blossom with a central stalk, and a separate detail of stamens, with the plate's X and XI lettering along the base. A designer might take from it the precise linear botanical drawing style, suited to scientific or herbal motifs.
