All Resolutions
(Plate 29.)
Artist
- Name:
- Burgess, Henry William
- Dates:
- ca. 1792-1839
- Country:
- UK
Illustration
- Subject:
- Landscapes & places, Plants
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- The New York Public Library
Book
- Title:
- Eidodendron
- Author(s):
- Burgess, Henry William
- Publisher:
- London: J. Dickins, 1827
Description
Plate showing an ancient crooked and truncated oak with a split bark leaving the sapwood exposed. The King Oak was described as follows by the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland[1]: The largest and oldest oak tree in Windsor Forest, ‘the King Oak,’ measures 26 feet in circumference at 4 feet from the ground.
- ^ Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, 4th series, vol. XIII. Edinburgh: 1881, p. 216-217.
