While we are in deep freeze here in Toronto, Alexa Greist, Associate Curator and R. Fraser Elliot Chair, Prints & Drawings, will explore nine hand-coloured engravings of flowers, fungi and lichens that were gifted to the AGO in 2019. All the engravings come from the ambitious Flora Danica, a series of books documenting the plants of Denmark and neighbouring countries. Undertaken by 11 editors and numerous painters, engravers and printers over 122 years (1761–1883), the Flora Danica is part of the long history of  how visual knowledge spread before photography.