Scarlet pimpernel; Anagallis arvensis. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by William Clark from Rebecca Hey's 鈥楳oral of Flowers;' London; Longman; Rees; 1833. Mrs. Rebecca Hey was a Victorian writer; poet and artist who wrote 鈥楽pirit of the Woods' 1837 and 鈥楻ecollections of the Lakes' 1841. William Clark was former draughtsman to the London Horticultural Society and illustrated many botanical books in the 1820s and 1830s.