Museum Selection 20 Sheets Botanical Fern Gift Wrap
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Click here to save when you buy the set Elegant wrapping paper reproducing intricate details from 18th and 19th century botanical studies of ferns. Britain and America experienced a "fern mania" in the 1840s90s with specimens being hunted far and wide and depicted in all media. Includes a study of a downy wood fern from a watercolour by Sydney Parkinson, published 17681771, made during Captain James Cook"s first voyage across the Pacific, and a Samoan fern from a book of horticultural illustrations published in Brussels in 1882; plus a Hard Shield fern from ‘Die Entdeckung des Naturselbstdruckes’, 1854 and a Rockcap fern from a botanical illustration after Sydenham Edwards, c.1805. Made exclusively for Museum Selection.
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