Title
Viscum album L (Mistletoe), c1870-1920. Creator: Harold Drinkwater.
Caption
Viscum album L (Mistletoe), c1870-1920. Harold Drinkwater (1855-1925) was an English physician largely remembered as an amateur botanist and exemplary artist of botanical subjects. Druids revered as sacred any Oak containing mistletoe. In medieval times mistletoe could keep witches at bay, lead you to treasure and cure epilepsy. As an evergreen mistletoe symbolised eternal life and fertility.
Date
1870
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images
Reference
HRM19F02_438
Model release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
36,2Mb (2,5Mb) / 11,7in x 12,0in / 3508 x 3606 (300dpi)