


Le chêne dit de l’Evangile près de Stoneleigh.
Inscription au revers : Tiré du sylva Britannica.
Frise du bord (border) : Chêne (Oak).
The subject taken from “Sylva Britannica, or Portraits of Forest Trees” by Joseph George Strutt (1784–1867) that pictures 50 special British trees in etchings and words.
“The Gospel Oak near Stoneleigh stands in a little retired coppice, the solitude of which is equally favourable to thought and to devotion, to the reveries of the philosopher on ages past, and the contemplation of the Christian on the ages to come.”
