Wormwood – art print
£15.00
Wormwood
Artemisia absinthium
A4 art print
Digitally printed on Shetland Rives 300gsm stock
Illustration from The Physick Garden book
DESCRIPTION
Ask most people about wormwood and few will get beyond its role as the main ingredient in absinthe – the mind-bending alcoholic drink associated with radical ‘free-thinkers’ like Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Marcel Proust and Ernest Hemingway. But there is much more to this musky smelling plant.
A wild-growing native of Europe and Central Asia, Ancient Greek physician Dioscorides and Ancient Roman Pliny the Elder deemed common wormwood a stomach tonic fit for emperors like Claudius and Nero.
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