Set of 3 Antique Botany Prints, Flowered Heath, Daisy, Canadian Columbine

Birds, Plants & Natural History

Set of 3 Antique Botany Prints, Flowered Heath, Daisy, Canadian Columbine

Name: Set of 3 Antique Botany Prints, Flowered Heath, Daisy, Canadian Columbine
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13340-30, BG-13340-12, BG-13340-4
Price: 405 USD
Availability: InStock

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Shipping to the United States: $51 standard, $73 express, insured and tracked.

Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 23 × 14 cm (9.1 × 5.5 in)
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. Age-related toning, some wear and soiling. Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Reference: BG-13340-30, BG-13340-12, BG-13340-4

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Three original antique botanical prints from The Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden Displayed, begun by William Curtis in 1787. The plates are hand-colored copper engravings, each with its plate number at the upper right and the imprint "Pub. by W. Curtis, St. George's Crescent" below.

The set shows the Canadian columbine, with its red and yellow nodding flowers on slender branching stems, the Great Double Daisy, a red and white quilled flower with a rosette of green leaves and the root drawn out, and the Honeywort-flowered Heath, a long spray of narrow leaves with a hooked cluster of red tubular flowers. Each plant is drawn at natural size on an otherwise blank sheet, a form the Botanical Magazine used to give a reader a clear identification of the species.

The Botanical Magazine began in 1787 and is the longest-running botanical periodical, widely known by the later name Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Its illustrations were hand colored and accompanied by a page or two of text on each plant, describing its properties, history and growth. Many plants were first illustrated in its pages, and it is renowned for featuring the work of two centuries of botanical illustrators.

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