A tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum), its flowers and seeds, bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.

Date:
[c. 1840]
Reference:
28060i
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[c. 1840]

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; border 22.5 x 17.7 cm

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The tobacco plant. the flowers. seeds. drying tobacco. selling tobacco. smoking. snuff taking. Sir Walter Raleigh. Indians smoking

Reference

Wellcome Collection 28060i

Notes

One of a series of six prints illustrating economic plants and their uses: date palm (Wellcome Library no. 28051i), coffee (2052i), rubber (28053i), sugar cane (28057i), tea (28058i), tobacco (28060i)

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