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Handout: Coloring pages of historical herbals, by Rutgers Libraries

herbals St John's wort, SCLA Rutgers

historical illustration of St. John's wort (Hypericum) from Nehemiah Grew’s The Anatomy of Plants. Source: Special Collections and University Archives (@Rutgers_SCUA)

Want to travel back in botanical history with watercolor or coloring pens?  Here are some illustrious handouts for students in many subjects (medicine, gardening, pharmacology, botany, history…), as well as just for fun!

Download the pdf (6 pages) of black and white coloring pages from illustrations scanned from of historical herbal books from the Special Collections & University Archives at Rutgers University Libraries (provided by Flora Boros).

Credit: Special Collections & University Archives, Rutgers University (provided by Flora Boros).

Coloring pages of historical herbals (Rutgers University Libraries: Special Collections & University Archives) (723 downloads )
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