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Stunning set of 4 mushroom fungi original antique prints by Mordecai Cooke, C. 1881, ready for framing. Includes Agaricus Colossus, …
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Stunning set of 4 mushroom fungi original antique prints by Mordecai Cooke, C. 1881, ready for framing. Includes Agaricus Colossus, Agaricus Giganteus, Agaricus Pantoleucus, and Agaricus Revolutus.
Mordecai Cooke (1825-1914) was an English botanist and mycologist. It has been suggested that Cooke's description of the perceived distortions of the size of objects while intoxicated by the fungus Amanita muscaria (commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita), in his books The Seven Sisters of Sleep and A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi, inspired the passage in Lewis Carroll's 1865 popular children's storybook Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, where Alice grows or shrinks on eating parts of the mushroom. (The effects were later termed Alice in Wonderland syndrome.) He is honoured in the naming of Cookeina, which is a genus of cup fungi in the family Sarcoscyphaceae, which was found in 1891.
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- Dimensions
- 6ʺW × 1ʺD × 9ʺH
- Styles
- English
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Art Subjects
- Botanic
- Period
- Late 19th Century
- Country of Origin
- United Kingdom
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Paper
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Tan
- Condition Notes
- Wonderful antique condition. Slight tear upper and lower left corners of Agaricus Colossus print. Truly exquisite and ready for framing. Wonderful antique condition. Slight tear upper and lower left corners of Agaricus Colossus print. Truly exquisite and ready for framing. less
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