'Sedum montanum...' Size:XL: 120 x 80cm A lesson westward

A lesson westward

Behind his right shoulder appears Newgate Prison in flames

draught and fume excluders

Found in the collection of the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum

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

'Sedum montanum...' Size:XL: 120 x 80cm A lesson westwardBotanical 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'.