Antique Print-TRITOMA PIMULA-LESSER-764-Edwards-Curtis-Sansom-1804

Subject: Antique print, titled: ''No. 764.'' - This original antique print shows Tritoma pimula (Lesser Tritoma).
Condition: Good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
Medium: Engraving/etching with contemporary hand colouring on wove (vellin) paper.
Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 13.5 x 22.5 cm. The image size is ca. 11.5 x 20 cm.
Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 5.3 x 8.9 inch. The image size is ca. 4.5 x 7.9 inch.
Part Number: 67181
Location: DP-C9-41
Description: This rare and delicate plate originates from: 'Curtis Botanical Magazine', dated 1804. William Curtis began publication of the Botanical Magazine in February 1787 and it continuedeven after his death almost without interruption until 1948. The images were engraved and hand-coloured by many reknown artists. The plates are known for their fine detail and delicate hand coloring. The prints are all copper engravings to Volume 70, then continue with stone or zinc lithography until the introduction of color printing in 1948.

Artists and Engravers: Made by 'F. Sansom' after 'Sydenham Edwards'. Engraved by Sansom after Sydenham Edwards. William Curtis (1746-1799) was an English botanist and entomologist. Curtis began as an apothecary, before turning his attention to botany and other natural history. Curtis was demonstrator of plants and Praefectus Horti at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1771 to 1777. He established his own London Botanic Garden at Lambeth in 1779, moving to Brompton in 1789. He published Flora Londinensis (6 volumes, 1777 - 1798), a pioneering work in that it devoted itself to urban nature. Financial success was not found, but he went on the publish The Botanical Magazine in 1787, a work that would also feature hand coloured plates by artists such as James Sowerby, Sydenham Edwards, and William Kilburn. Sydenham Teast Edwards[1768 - 1819) the son of Lloyd Pittell Edwards, a schoolmaster who became a first full-time artist that worked for Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Edwards had a disagreement after 27 years with Curtis's successor. He founded his own magazine, the Botanical Register. Edwards' illustrations turned out to be enormously popular. He flourished during a period when adventure-filled collecting expeditions were made to previously unknown corners of the earth. These expeditions gripped the public imagination and the desire for new plants and illustrations seemed to be endless. Against this backdrop Edwards produced plates at a prodigious rate: between 1787 and 1815 he produced over 1,700 watercolors for the Botanical Magazine alone.