Banana Tree (Musa sapientum) - Plate From The Natural History of Barbados - Vintage Botanical Illustration by Georg Dionysius Ehret c.1700s - Fine Art Matte Paper Print (Unframed) 11x14in

Enjoy a taste of Aloha with these beautiful Fine Art Prints by Pacifica Island Art - printed in Maui, Hawaii. This print will look wonderful framed in the home, office or restaurant and is perfect for the Vintage Art Collector. - ABOUT THE ARTIST - Georg Dionysius Ehret - Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708 – 1770) was a German botanist and entomologist, and is best known for his botanical illustrations. Ehret was born in Germany his working life as a gardener's apprentice near Heidelberg, he became one of the most influential European botanical artists of all time. His first illustrations were in collaboration with Carl Linnaeus and George Clifford in 1735-1736. Clifford, a wealthy Dutch banker and governor of the Dutch East India Company was a keen botanist with a large herbarium. He had the income to attract the talents of botanists such as Linnaeus and artists like Ehret. Together at the Clifford estate, Hartecamp, which is located south of Haarlem in Heemstede near Bennebroek, they produced Hortus Cliffortianus in 1738, a masterpiece of early botanical literature.