1815 CURTIS RARE DATED H/COLOR BOTANICAL LOBELIA

This original hand color engraving comes from a disbound book: Curtis's Botanical Magazine or, Flower-Garden Displayed, Volume 20, in which the most ornamental Foreign plants, cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green House, and the Stove, are accurately represented in their natural Colours...Pub.London:Sherwood 1815

This original hand color engraving is in good condition with some ageing present and strong plate marks-please see supersize image below. Printed on one side only on heavy grade paper, the page measures  9.5ins x 6ins approx. (24cms x 15cms approx.) and is dated with the imprint of the publisher, artist and engraver.   The original accompanying text is also available. A delightful and rare addition to your print collection and ideal for framing-these Curtis engravings are becoming more and more scarce and thus increasing in value. 

 William Curtis was a trained apothecary living in London, although his passion was for natural history, particularly plants and insects.  He maintained a large well-stocked garden and began the publication of the Botanical Magazine in February 1787.  It became the most famous and influential botanical publication of its type and it is still published today, making it the longest running scientific periodical of all time. Curtis edited the first 13 volumes, and was then succeeded by John Simms (1800-1826), William Jackson Hooker (1827-1865) and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1865-1904), the magazine continues in production today. The fine illustrations from this period of its publication were by many artists including Sydenham Edwards, William Graves, James Sowerby, John Curtis, William Jackson Hooker,and W.H. Fitch.