C1798

Phlox Setacea. Fine-Leaved Phlox.

Artist:

Sydneham Edwards (1768 - 1819)

Superb botanical illustration from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine。 Common name : creeping phlox, moss phloxBinomial name:   Phlox subulata Distribution:         Americas

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Full Title:

Phlox Setacea. Fine-Leaved Phlox.

Date:

C1798

Artist:

Sydneham Edwards (1768 - 1819)

Condition:

In good condition

Technique:

Copper engraving with original hand colouring

Image Size: 

230mm 
x 210mm
AUTHENTICITY
Phlox Setacea. Fine-Leaved Phlox. - Antique Print from 1798

Genuine antique
dated:

1798

Description:

Superb botanical illustration from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine。

Common name : creeping phlox, moss phlox
Binomial name:   Phlox subulata 
Distribution:         Americas

Biography:

Sydneham Edwards (1768-1819)

Edward‘s worked for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine.

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.

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