'Sedum montanum...' Size:XL: 120 x 80cm was told it was impossible

was told it was impossible to keep anything dry in two feet of water

including King William IV and Queen Adelaide riding in an open carriage

shoulder-length and high up from the forehead

XXIX from Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and Inquiries thereupon

A scene at Sadler's Wells and Sir Hugh Middleton Tavern

'Sedum montanum...' Size:XL: 120 x 80cm was told it was impossibleBotanical study, Sedum montanum [Sempervivum arachnoideum] in flower with foreground detail. Commonly called the mountain woolly houseleek or cobweb houseleek [described in Philip Millers, Gardeners' dictionary, 1735], the artist shows the fine inter leaf filaments producing the cobweb effect, from which the plant takes its name. Inscribed in ink: 'SEDUM montanum tomento sum C. B. P. Cobweb Houseleek.' Signed lower right; 'G. D. Ehret pinxit'.