Multicoloured Tea Towel Shoal of Unusual Tropical Fish Antique Print UK Made 100% Cotton zoology provided affordable images of plants

provided affordable images of plants to the growing population of amateur gardeners in Britain

The detail and colours are spectacular and this oven glove will positively inject a splash of colour into your kitchen

Christian Gottleib Geissler painted and engraved this design for the Swiss Botanist Johannes Gessner who published the Tabulae Phytographicae in 1795

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Multicoloured Tea Towel Shoal of Unusual Tropical Fish Antique Print UK Made 100% Cotton zoology provided affordable images of plantsDescription These outlandish, exotic looking creatures were drawn in the early 1700s by Louis Renard (c. 1678 1746), a book dealer and spy for the British Crown, with a keen interest in tropical fish. He apparently drew them without ever having set foot outside of Europe, by using dried specimens brought back from the Moluccas Islands near Indonesia or from verbal firsthand descriptions. Some have almost human faces! Louis Renard was born in France