Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802. Folio (visible surface 28.2 x 22.0 cm). Mounted in a fine, elegant, early 20th-century gilt-ornamented frame (57.1 x 49.7 cm).

A fine plate from a work by the Dutch physician of German descent and professor at the University of Harderwijk, Johan Carl Krauss (1759-1826). The work - which is quite rare - deals with ornamental trees, and this plate shows the bladder-senna, its flowers, leaves, seed, and pod. This species occurs in western Europe and northern Africa, but is widely used elsewhere as an ornamental shrub or tree. The Dutch name is 'boomachige colutra', or ‘tree-like colutra’. Some marginal foxing, otherwise very good, with a strong impression and vivid, natural colours. Landwehr, 98; Nissen BBI, 1102; Sitwell, Great Flower Books, 63; Stafleu and Cowan, 3927.