Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation

Virtues and Pleasures of Herbs through History

Physic, Flavor, Fragrance and Dye

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Figure 2. Fennel ... Foeniculum. [Foeniculum vulgare Miller, Apiaceae alt. Umbelliferae], hand-colored, copper-plate engraving by Elizabeth Blackwell (1700–1758) after her original drawing for her, A Curious Herbal: Containing Five Hundred Cuts, of the Most Useful Plants, Which Are Now Used in the Practice of Physick, Engraved on Folio Copper Plates, after Drawings, Taken from the Life ... (London, printed for Samuel Harding [vol. 1]; printed for John Nourse [vol. 2], 1737–1739, vol. 2, pl. 288), Strandell Collection of Linnaeana, HI Library call no. CA B632c STR.