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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
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.
