Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Horse chestnuts (Aesculus hippocastanum L.): seeds (conkers) and their shells, with a poem about them. Etching with drypoint by A. Taiée after himself, c.1875.
Horse chestnuts (Aesculus hippocastanum L.): seeds (conkers) and their shells, with a poem about them. Etching with drypoint by A. Taiée after himself, c.1875.
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Horse chestnuts (Aesculus hippocastanum L.): seeds (conkers) and their shells, with a poem about them. Etching with drypoint by A. Taiée after himself, c.1875.

Alfred Taiée · 1875

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Lettering: Marrons d'Inde Alfred Taiée sc. a.taiée. sous ta piquante carapace, marron de détestable race, á quoi bon te cacher si bien, puisqu'on sait que tu ne vaux rien!

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