The aubergine as Besler envisioned it — not the cultivated vegetable of the garden, but a specimen of botanical wonder, captured with the meticulous precision of 17th-century copperplate artistry. Against a rich black ground, every vein and contour emerges with luminous clarity.
From Basilius Besler's Hortus Eystettensis of 1613, produced using archival pigment inks on premium uncoated stock.
