The Dragon Arum.

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• ARTIST: Dr. Robert John Thornton

• PUBLISHER: Published by Dr. Robert John Thornton, London.

• MEDIUM: Mezzotint engraving,

  DATE: 1801. (1810)

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 17 5/16 x 13 3/4" (44 x 35 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: Printed in color and finished by hand. Plate XXII from "The Temple of Flora; or Garden of Nature. Picturesque Botanical Plates of the New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus." Forth of four states. Engraved by Ward after the painting by Henderson.<br><br> This fine publication had a total of thirty-one plates. They are among the most important and most beautiful botanical prints ever published.

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Fair condition, two small punctures in the sky, patched, a few repaired tears in the right margin and some rubbing in the mezzotint.

• 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