Cataputia Vilgaris
Artist
Basil Besler
(German, 1561 - 1629)
Date1613
MediumCopperplate engraving, hand colored
Dimensions16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Jeff Siegal
Object number2010.34.3
DescriptionBotanical drawing of three plants: center, Cataputia Vulgaris (Large Mediterranean Spurge or Euphorbia characias L.), a leafy green plant with small yellow-orange buds at the end of its stems; right, Parietaria sylvestris (Cataputia vulgaris, Nummularia, Spring Spurge), a leafy green plant with yellow flowers; and right, Nummularia (Lysimachia nummularia or moneywort, creeping jenny, herb twopence, and twopenny grass), a leafy green plant with many five-pointed yellow flowers. From "Hortus Eystettensis", Eichstatt, 1613.
