Why do so many fern prints date from the 1850s and 1860s?

Because of pteridomania, the Victorian fern craze. Ferns were collected, grown and drawn by everyone, and publishers answered with books of colour-printed plates.

Drawer V of VII

Trees, palms & ferns

Leaf, frond and branch: the forest trees of Europe, tropical palms, the Victorian fern craze in E.J. Lowe's lithographs, the ferns of Java, club mosses, lichens and seaweeds.

4 prints

Before 1750 4 1750 to 1799 7 1800 to 1849 33 1850 and after 59

Order: Finest firstOldest first Newest first Price, low to high Price, high to low

Set of 2