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Colonna, Fabio (1)
Life
Dates:
1567–25 July 1640
Date
Created/Published:
1606 (at age of 38)
Size: 5 x 7
Copyright Restrictions:
unknown
Acquired:
April 1967
Notes: Ancillary details have been cropped from scan to better show the botanist. Full scan upon request. Print is copy of line engraving (5.9 x 5.5 in.) with orgnette (oval surmounted by 2 illus. ovals, with 3 of the same below. Under engraving: "Ekphrasis, 1606" -could be engraver and year. Published in Colonna's "Minus cognitorum" (J. Mascardum), Rome, 1616 & in E. L. Greene, Landmarks of Botany, fig. 206, p. 834, 1983, vol. 2. Neg: #71, 4 x 5.