Museum Plantin-Moretus Online Catalogue

Object number
MPM.HB.04617
Title
- Giant hogweed, cartwheelflower, giant cow parsley, giant cow parship or hogsbane [Heracleum mantegazzianum]
Production date
1574
Object name
woodblock (printing matrix)
Material
wood (plant material)
Technique
woodcut (printing process)
Acquisition date
1876-04-20
Acquisition method
purchase - Moretus, Edward
Printed in
- Rembert Dodoens, Purgantium aliarumque eo facientium, tum et radicum, convolvulorum ac deleteriarum herbarum historiae libri IIII, 1574, p. 491 (Sphondylium alterum)
- Matthias de L'Obel, Plantarum, seu Stirpium historia ... Cui annexum est adversariorum volumen, 1576, p. 399 (Panax heracleum)