Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Doctrine of signatures: a plant with seed-pods resembling the horn of a unicorn, above, and a unicorn's head, below. Coloured ink drawing, c. 1923, after a sixteenth-century woodcut illustration.
Doctrine of signatures: a plant with seed-pods resembling the horn of a unicorn, above, and a unicorn's head, below. Coloured ink drawing, c. 1923, after a sixteenth-century woodcut illustration.
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Doctrine of signatures: a plant with seed-pods resembling the horn of a unicorn, above, and a unicorn's head, below. Coloured ink drawing, c. 1923, after a sixteenth-century woodcut illustration.

1923

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: Doctrine of signatures. Plant resembling a unicorn. From a woodcut of the XVI. century.

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