Rosa IV, The Single Eglatine or Sweet Briarbush

by Christoph Jakob Trew

$350 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A very fine image from the work described by Dunthorne as 'one of the finest records of the cultivated flowers of the period' and by Blunt p. 166 as 'one of the most decorative florilegia of the mid-eighteenth century.' A complete copy of this work sold for almost 1,000,000 in London in 2002. The great characteristic of this beautiful plate, from Trew's Hortus Nitidissimus, is the way in which the watercolour and bodycolour painting almost entirely eclipses the engraved

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