Florilegium Christmas Card - Hera Terrestre (6053)

Large card, 110 x 155mm, blank inside. Published in Australia by Blue Island Press.  A percentage from sales of this card goes to support the work of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.

The Art -

Joseph Banks was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences.
He accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage round the world from
1768 to 1771 and collected over 1300 species of floras. An illustrator, Sydney Parkinson,
drew them life-size and captured them lushly life-like with an artist’s eye and lucid observation.  Banks' Florilegium is a published collection of copperplate engravings of the plants collected from that voyage.