Lot 108
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A nonsense botany fan, the black silk leaf painted with five imaginary plants: Bacopipia Gracis, incorporating a pipe; Plumbunnia Nutriciosa, incorporating plum puddings; Piggiwiggia Pyromidalis incorporating nine piglets; Bottlephorkia Spoonfolia, with a carafe and seven forks; and Pollybirdia Singularis, with nine parrots, with wooden sticks - 12in. (30cm.), circa 1870
A nonsense botany fan, the black silk leaf painted with five imaginary plants: Bacopipia Gracis, incorporating a pipe; Plumbunnia Nutriciosa, incorporating plum puddings; Piggiwiggia Pyromidalis incorporating nine piglets; Bottlephorkia Spoonfolia, with a carafe and seven forks; and Pollybirdia Singularis, with nine parrots, with wooden sticks - 12in. (30cm.), circa 1870

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A nonsense botany fan, the black silk leaf painted with five imaginary plants: Bacopipia Gracis, incorporating a pipe; Plumbunnia Nutriciosa, incorporating plum puddings; Piggiwiggia Pyromidalis incorporating nine piglets; Bottlephorkia Spoonfolia, with a carafe and seven forks; and Pollybirdia Singularis, with nine parrots, with wooden sticks - 12in. (30cm.), circa 1870
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After Edward Lear, possibly in an Italian hand
These designs were first published by Lear in Nonsense Songs ... Botany ...in 1871. Manuscript versions are known dated 18th May 1870, given to Mrs. Ker, at Yale University

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