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We pretty much have to compare it to older depictions because that's how people saw and did things at the time and the VMS illustrator didn't work in a vacuum. It's highly unlikely that the oak-and-ivy combination is a coincidence. It was part of herbal tradition.  (P.S., I use the term "oak" for convenience to mean oak-leaved plant. It wasn't always drawn as an oak. Some of the early versions of this combination look like they might be another plant with oak-like leaves).