Ferns
Nine pressed and framed specimens of ferns originally collected by the Rev. Nathaniel Shafto Barthropp. Some inscribed, presumably by their collector, in pen and ink with their botanical name.
Within fine, hand made and finished frames, copies of an early Victorian moulding.
framed dimensions: 14.5 ins x 18.25 ins.
The Reverend Nathaniel Shafto Barthropp of Jesus College Oxford was Rector of Itton (Monmouthshire) by 1879. He was born at the very end of 1843 in Cretingham, Suffolk, the son of Nathaniel George, and enrolled at Jesus College Oxford in 1862; B.A. in 1867 and M.A. 1870.
Item code: 5978
£4850
