Axial Commons Image Treasury
Hand-coloured botanical plate showing about forty-five numbered simple leaves of varied shapes in green tones, with the title Simple Leaves at the bottom.

Simple Leaves of Different Forms, Hand-Coloured Botanical Etching

A hand-coloured botanical plate arranged in a grid of numbered leaves in varied shapes, from long narrow blades to lobed and toothed forms, in greens and grey-greens. The title Simple Leaves, No. 27 appears at the bottom above a printed credit line, on a pale, slightly toned paper ground.

Artist
Wilkes, John, -1810
Date
14 July 1799
Medium
Book illustrations Etchings
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
3164 × 4000 px
Download full size
Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1799.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

Natural History18th centuryengravingbotanical illustrationnatural historyantique printbotanyplant studyhand-coloured etchingbotanical plategreen foliageleaf shapesleaf morphology

More from Natural History

Guatteria sempervirens DC.: branch with flowers and fruit and sections of fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.Guatteria sempervirens DC.: branch with flowers and fruit and sections of fruit and seed. Tetracera laevis Vahl: branch with flowers and fruit, separate fruit and cross-section of fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.Tetracera laevis Vahl: branch with flowers and fruit, separate fruit and cross-section of Indian Copal (Vateria indica L.): branch with flowers, leaves and fruit and dissected fruit showing seed. Coloured line engraving.Indian Copal (Vateria indica L.): branch with flowers, leaves and fruit and dissected fruiA plant (Holigarna arnottiana): branch with leaves, flowers and fruit and cross-sections of fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.A plant (Holigarna arnottiana): branch with leaves, flowers and fruit and cross-sections oThe 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the US Government building: natural history exhibit featuring a whale skeleton and life-sized whale model. Photograph, 1904.The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the US Government building: natural history exStilleven met bloemenStilleven met bloemen