Passiflora caerulea Common Passion flower

by Mary Lawrance

$700 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A fine image from one of the rarest of all botanical works. Only five complete copies of Miss Lawrance's A Collection of Passion Flowers London: 1799-1802 are known. The work was published, without text, in six parts of 3 plates each. Mary Lawrance later Mrs. Kearse , flower painter, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1795 to 1830. She lived during a period when flower painting was considered one of the necessary social accomplishments for ladies and she was able to

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