Fucus asparagoides (Bonnemaisonia asparagoides) 1811 by Ellen Hutchins (1785-1815) Ireland’s first female botanist. Issued for the Ellen Hutchins Festival in Bantry Bay, Ireland, Heritage Week, August 2015. This print is taken from the one drawing owned by the Hutchins family. The Print Edition is limited to 200, to reflect the 200th  anniversary of Ellen’s death. Income from print sales goes towards the costs of organising Ellen Hutchins Festival events in the Bantry Bay area each August in Heritage Week.

Ellen’s drawings are exquisite, with an incredible level of detail, and great accuracy. This is a high quality print with careful colour balancing that does justice to theoriginal. We show a low resolution image here, for obvious reasons.

On Ellen’s plant list, of over 1100 plants she identified and listed in the Bantry Bay area, she noted that she found Fucus asparagoides at Ardnagashel. This was her brother Arthur’s home, and where she lived for the last nine months of her life, dying there on 9th February 1815.

It is supplied unmounted on A4 paper, as is the original drawing. A back sheet gives information about the image.