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Group of 19 hand-coloured, mezzotint and aquatint engravings from Temple of Flora

Lot 1157
13.12.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 1157 | Group of 19 hand-coloured, mezzotint and aquatint engravings from Temple of Flora
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$ 12 000 – 18 000
Group of 19 hand-coloured, mezzotint and aquatint engravings from Temple of Flora
John Robert Thornton, 1807
THORNTON, John Robert (1768–1837). Group of 19 hand-coloured, mezzotint and aquatint engravings from New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus […] and the Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature. London: T Bensley, 1799–1807.

A magnificent selection of plates from the first edition of Thronton’s Temple of Flora, one of the finest English botanical plate books ever produced. Hanging at her Southampton home, Mica Ertegun's collection of large botanic engravings posited the splendour of an exotic nineteenth-century printed flowers shown in the wild against the backdrop of her own landscaped garden along the shores of Long Island.

19 plates, folio (405 × 523 mm by sight), comprising: The Snowdrop, 350 × 489 mm [Dunthorne II] – The Persian Cyclamen, 406 × 502 mm [I] – A Group of Carnations, 400 × 524 mm [I] – Tulips, 359 × 483 [I], with text description on back of frame – The American Aloe, 445 × 552 mm – The Nodding Renealmia, 394 × 521 mm [II] – The Oblique-Leaved Begonia, 381 × 514 mm [II] – The Blue Passion Flower, 381 × 518 mm [II] – The Winged Passion Flower, 457 × 559 mm [I], with text description on back of frame – The Winged Passion Flower, 457 × 559 mm [III] (5mm tear, text faded, toning and foxing) – The Quadrangular Passion Flower, 406 × 556 mm [II], with text description on back of frame – The Superb Lily, 359 × 479 mm [B.I] – The Dragon Arum, 352 × 476 mm [IV] – American Bog Plants, 432 × 572 mm [II] (toning) – The China Limodoron, 400 × 527 mm – The Indian Reed, 406 × 537 mm [II] (stains, foxing) – The Sacred Egyptian Bean, 448 × 556 mm (registration issue across lower half) – The Blue Egyptian Water Lily, 400 × 521 mm – The Blue Egyptian Water Lily, 400 × 521 mm. Uniformly matted and framed.

Not examined out of frame. Sold as a group not subject to return.
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