The Blue Passion Flower.

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• ARTIST: Dr. Robert John Thornton

• PUBLISHER: London, Published by Dr. Thornton, Jan.y 1800.

• MEDIUM: Aquatint and line engraving,

  DATE: 1800.

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 18 3/8 x 14" (46.6 x 35.4 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: Plate XVII from "The Temple of Flora; or Garden of Nature. Picturesque Botanical Plates of the New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus." Second state of three. Engraved by Caldwell after the painting by Reinagle. <br><br> This series was published in London between 1799 and 1807 and contained a total of thirty-one plates. They are among the most important (and most beautiful) botanical prints ever published.

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Good condition and color save for some strengthing along plate marks on the sides.

• REFERENCE: #301 in "Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and early 19th Centuries" by Gordon Dunthorne.

• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Natural History - Botanicals , Dr. Robert John Thornton