1872 Victorian hand-painted colour botanical engraving in William Rhind's Vegetable Kingdom: Woad / Isatis tinctoria. Dyeing plant, also herbal med.
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Contributor:
Marcus Harrison - botanicals / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
2XAJE5WFile size:
60.5 MB (2.2 MB Compressed download)Releases:
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3736 x 5656 px | 31.6 x 47.9 cm | 12.5 x 18.9 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
22 May 2024Location:
ukMore information:
Image taken from 1872 revised version of 'A History of the Vegetable Kingdom' by William Rhind. Pub. Blackie & Son, Paternoster Row EC, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Believed to be out of copyright.... These appear to be hand-coloured pictures; the inks do not always precisely follow black edges, and occasionally a small ink smear appears. The colour illustrations in Rhind's book are mostly set out in a 1/4-page format for each species pictured, with the 1/4-page space filling the camera frame here... Rhind's layout meant that some parts of neighbouring plant illustrations infringe the camera view; so some digital restoration has been done to eliminate these odd fronds using blank page space as fill in... The pages, however, had marked 'foxing' [the yellowing or orange tint of old paper] around the three main page edges while the binding/spine side had discoloration. Really badly foxed areas have been re-built with cleaner areas while some desaturation in the yellow and orange channels has been used. The worst surface blemishes [tears] & ink spatter are removed... Whilst the image in its' current state may be useful, in some instances I feel that flood-filling the background white may be better, while working with PS using copy & paste in layer masks [as you might with copying fine hair, ] and using selection tools with carefully chosen edge detection and edge refinement settings.