William Curtis Botanical Prints 1787-1826

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Large-flowered Berckheya CBR1844 $45	Hooked-tendrilled Trumpet-flower CBR1511 $55	Mountain Arnica, or Leopard's-bane CBR1749 $55


Yellow Crown Imperial CBR1215 $55	Monadelphous Lily CBR1405 $55	Golden Pancratium CBR1224 $55


Dwarf Pomegranate Tree CBR634 $55	Glandulous Inula CBR1907 $55	Scarlet Flag-Leaved Watsonia CBR600 $45


Climbing Cobaea CBR851 $55	Blue-flowered Thunbergia CBR2366 $55	Rough-leaved Gloxinia CBR1937 $55


Spanish Fennel-Flower CBR1265 $55	Iberian Geranium CBR1386 $55	Oriental Fennel-Flower CBR1264 $55


Great-flowered Larkspur CBR1686 $45	Austrian Flax CBR1086 $45	Sage-Leaved Bell-Flower CBR927 $55


Lesser shrubby Viper's-Bugloss CBR1772 $45	Mourning-flowered Aristea CBR1277 SOLD	Phlox-like Lead-Wort CBR2110 $45


Flat-Stemmed Aristea CBR1231 $45	Two-Coloured Columbine CBR1221 SOLD	European Moreaea, or Spanish Nut CBR1407 $45

William Curtis began publication of the Botanical Magazine in February 1787 and it continued almost without interruption for 160 years. The images were engraved and hand-coloured by many artists including Sydenham Edwards, William Graves, James Sowerby, John Curtis, William Jackson Hooker, W.H. Fitch, Matilda Smith, Lillian Snelling and Stella Rose Craig. 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. It is the longest-running botanical magazine and was entirely hand colored until 1948. Even now, after all this time of living with Curtis prints, we are still left in awe by their beauty. Each single measures approximately 5 1/2 inches wide by 9 inches long. Prints are accompanied by the relevant original descriptive text.

Curtis Botanical Magazine Daises, Sunflowers, Lilies & more 1787

Curtis Botanical Magazine Prints 1787-1826