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William
& Samuel Curtis (7)
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 William
Hooker and
date from 1829.
These plates are printed on good paper and are in excellent condition.  William Jackson Hooker All prints are original. |
