Dendrobium nobile 08_03_23 Plate LXXXI Fish Hawk or

Plate LXXXI Fish Hawk or Osprey

Taken from the third book of his monumental treatise on navigation

It started to appear on portolan charts in the fourteenth century and continued to be a stalwart of maps and charts into the nineteenth century

preceded by a Chinese issue with only sixteen engravings

Dendrobium nobile 08_03_23 Plate LXXXI Fish Hawk orSertum orchidaceum, an album so titled of watercolour drawings of orchids. English, mid nineteenth century Watercolour drawings of orchids and flowering plants, captioned at foot HIGHLY ACCOMPLISHED LARGE SCALE WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS. A pencil note on the fly leaf reads These drawings are thought to be done by the wife of MacFarlane the celebrated orchid painter (i. e. James Laird MacFarlane, 1836 1913). PROVENANCE: Samuel Williams Fuller (c. 1777 1857)