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ALEXANDER MARSHAL (C. 1620-82)

Seville orange, purple crocuses, grass snake and goat moth caterpillar

c. 1650-82

RCIN 924270

The Seville orange was reputedly first grown in English gardens in the late sixteenth century. Specially constructed orangeries, providing shelter and warmth for the trees in winter, began to be developed in the early seventeenth century. The grass snake appears to cast a shadow on the sheet as though a real snake is slithering across Marshal’s page.


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