William Curtis Botanical Orchid Prints 1787-1826

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Yellow-fringed Habenaria COR1 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: SOLD	Many-flowered Dendrobium COR2 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: SOLD	Round-rooted anthericum COR3 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23


Painted Maxillaria COR4 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23	Two-leaved Oncidium COR5 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23	Leafy fragrant Pleurothallis COR6 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23


Spreading-flowered Encyclia COR7 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23	Pale-flowered Epidendrum COR8 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23	Greenish-purple Gongora COR9 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23


Saw-fly Ophrys COR10 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: SOLD	Hyacinthine Cymbidium COR11 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23	Pointed-flowered Orchis COR12 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23


Proliferous Pleurothallis COR13 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23	Mr Parker's Maxillaria COR14 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23	Scarlet-flowered Cymbidium COR15 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23


Hooded Dendrobium COR16 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23	Catastum COR42t ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23	Pierard's Dendrobium COR18 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23


Halberd-leaved Clerodendron COR19 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23	Elegant Oncidium COR20 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: SOLD	Spurred Neottia COR21 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23


Raceme-flowered Maxillaria COR28 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23	Leafless Neottia COR25 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: SOLD	Black-spider Ophrys COR30 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23


Fragrant Brassavola CBM3229 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23	Friged Epidendrum CBM463 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23	Mrs. harrison's Epidendrum CBM3209 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23


Woodford's Cyrtopodium CBM1814 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23	Middle-size-flowered Cattleya CBM2851 SOLD	Anderson's Cyrtopodium CBM1800 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23


Mrs. Harrison's Maxillaria CBM2927~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23	Spotted-flowered Brassia CBM1691 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23	Mr. Forbes's Cattleya CBM3265 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $20


Aloe-leaved Epidendrum CBM387 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23	Chinese Epidendrum CBM888 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23	Tall Limodorum CBM930 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23


Sweet-scented Epidendrum CBM1669 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23	Lemon-colored Geodorum CBM2195 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23	Two-Leav'd Epidendrum CBM152 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $23

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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 Orchid Prints 1787-1826

Curtis Botanical Magazine Prints 1787-1826