The Flowers and Fruits of the Bible

by John Chancellor

Book Overview

Text by John Chancellor, full-page watercolor reproductions by W. H. McCheane were originally painted in the 1880's. The flowers & fruits are presented alphabetically, with some history and biblical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0825300851
• ISBN13: 9780825300851
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Beaufort Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A wonderful supplement for your Bible reading!

This collection of remarkable 19th Century watercolors depicts the best known flowers and fruits mentioned in the Bible. The exquisite and decorative work of Victorian piety, showing a love both of flowers and of the Scriptures, was complied by an army colonel who had experienced the heat of battle in the scorching Egyption sun. After a day's fighting, Lieutenant Colonel William McCheane returned to his tent and turned to his Bible and his watercolors. Despite the proximity of the Holy Land, he never went there, and he took as models for his drawings English garden plants with which he was familiar. This gives his drawings, which have never been published, a special charm. John Chancellor's scholarly and informative text considers botanical aspects as well as the symbolism and mythology of the plants, and detailed references are included which list the flowers and fruits mentioned in the Bible with scriptural references.