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English: An illustration featuring Adam and Eve in Paradise. Of interest is the depiction of a Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, a mythical plant of central Asia believed to grow sheep as its fruit, which is near the river behind Adam. |
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| Source | Frontispiece of Parkinson, John (1629). Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris : Or A Garden of All Sorts of Pleasant Flowers which our English Ayre will Permitt to be Noursed Vp. With a Kitchen Garden of All Manner of Herbes, Rootes, & Fruites, for Meate or Sause Vsed with Vs, and an Orchard of All Sorte of Fruitbearing Trees and Shrubbes Fit for Our Land. Together with the Right Orderinge, Planting & Preserving of Them and Their Uses and Vertues Collected by Iohn Parkinson Apothecary of London. London: Printed by Hvmfrey Lownes and Robert Yovng at the Signe of the Starre on Bread-Street Hill. Folio. In some copies the title page is woodcut; in others it is printed (dated 1635). |
| Author | Christopher Switzer, German artist. The artist's name is marked in the bottom right-hand corner of the illustration. |
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| current | 16:09, 26 February 2006 | | 1,257 × 2,000 (1.52 MB) | Valérie75 | Frontipice of ''Paradisi in Sole'' (1629) by John Parkinson We can see Adam and Eve in paradise and a vegetable lamb. |
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