Hyacinth Duke of Wellington

by James Andrews

$300 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A spectacular image from one of the great 19th-century botanical artists, originally published in the very rare 'The Illustrated Bouquet' James Andrews is now known only from the considerable body of his published botanical illustrations: - little is known of his life. Paradoxically, whilst the present image is undoubtedly one of his best prints, it is also from a work that is amongst the least known of the publications that he illustrated. Because Andrews specialised in the

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