Madeira flowers, fruits, and ferns : a selection of the botanical productions of that island, foreign and indigenous
A botanical plate book from 1845 published by Reeve Brothers, made by Jane Wallas Penfold to record plants of Madeira, both native and introduced. Its hand-coloured plates show ferns, fruiting shrubs and flowering stems drawn singly on cream grounds, with the species named in small print beneath each. A designer could take from them the precise linear structure of fronds and leaves, and the muted natural palette of ochre, sage and olive.
