'Sedum montanum...' Size:XL: 120 x 80cm XXIX from Micrographia: or some

XXIX from Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and Inquiries thereupon

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'Sedum montanum...' Size:XL: 120 x 80cm XXIX from Micrographia: or someBotanical study, Sedum montanum [Sempervivum arachnoideum] in flower with foreground detail. Commonly called the mountain woolly houseleek or cobweb houseleek [described in Philip Millers, Gardeners' dictionary, 1735], the artist shows the fine inter leaf filaments producing the cobweb effect, from which the plant takes its name. Inscribed in ink: 'SEDUM montanum tomento sum C. B. P. Cobweb Houseleek.' Signed lower right; 'G. D. Ehret pinxit'.