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C1801
Sophora Australis. Blue Sophora.
Artist:
Sydneham Edwards (1768 - 1819)
Fine original hand coloured botanical illustration of a Blue Wild Indigo which is native to central and eastern parts of North America. Modern binomial name: Sophora AustralisCommon name: Blue wild indigo or Blue false indigo From Curtis’s Botanical Magazine: or, Flower-Garden Displayed.
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Full Title:
Sophora Australis. Blue Sophora.
Date:
C1801
Artist:
Sydneham Edwards (1768 - 1819)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Copper engraving with original hand colouring
Image Size:
113mm
x 200mm
Paper Size:
140mm
x 235mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1801
Description:
Fine original hand coloured botanical illustration of a Blue Wild Indigo which is native to central and eastern parts of North America.
Modern binomial name: Sophora Australis
Common name: Blue wild indigo or Blue false indigo
From Curtis’s Botanical Magazine: or, Flower-Garden Displayed.
Biography:
Sydneham Edwards (1768-1819)
Initially worked for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, until a dispute with the publishers when he started his own rival magazine The Botanical Register. He was born in Monmouthshire, a from an early age demonstrated a precocious talent for drawing and when only 11 years old had copied plates from Flora Londinensis. A friend of William Curtis, the publisher visited the Edwards and recommended the boy to Curtis. Curtis proceeded to have Edwards trained in both botany and botanical illustration. Edwards was a prolific talent and between 1787 and 1815 he produced over 1,700 watercolours for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. He established The Botanical Register in 1815 after a disagreement with John Sims, Curtis’s editor.
