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William
& Samuel Curtis (5)
Garden Flowers These hand-colored engravings
are cut from what is perhaps the best known of the
botanical journals: TheBotanical
Magazine, or, Flower-Garden
Displayed, in which the Most Ornamental Foreign Plants , Cultivated in
the Open Ground, the Greenhouse , and the Stove, are Accurately
Represented in the Natural Colours, etc., edited by William Curtis from 1787 to 1799 and then by Thomas
Curtis, brother of William. Samuel
Curtis, brother-in-law to William was the
proprietor from 1801 to 1845 . "The reputation of the Magazine has always
resided in the accuracy of its portrayal of plants… This pictorial
record of garden and greenhouse plants from the temperate and tropical
regions of the world has no rival." --Desmond. The plates were
worked on by many of the most prominent botanical artists of the day,
here including the work of John Curtis, Sydenham Edwards, James
Sowerby, William Hooker, W. H. Fitch, and others.
The prints on this
page were drawn by Sydenham Edwards,
and they date from 1812 and 1813. The printed on good, watermarked, laid paper and are in generally very good to excellent condition. The prints have age toning consistent with their age, making the them somewhat darker and less luminous than they appear in the scans. The paper is typically toned to a light ivory. All prints are original. |
William Curtis Flowers
