Male & Female Flowers on the same Plant. Tripsacum Dactiloides ; or Jointed Tripsacum (1799–1810)

Dated 1799–1810, "Male & Female Flowers on the same Plant. Tripsacum Dactiloides ; or Jointed Tripsacum" is an artwork by Robert John Thornton. About the period around 1799–1810: The Enlightenment and the habit of the Grand Tour fed a wider interest in science, travel, antiquity, and natural history, and illustrators accompanied many expeditions. The eighteenth century began with the light, ornamental Rococo, especially in France, and moved towards the clarity and antique references of Neoclassicism by the end of the century. Plants & Animals, a short history: Images of plants and animals run from medieval herbals and bestiaries to the scientific illustration of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Naturalists and artists often worked together, especially on voyages and in published surveys of flora and fauna. The catalogue places it in Plants & Animals. The format is portrait.

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English, 1768–1837

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