William Curtis Botanical Cactus Prints 1787-1826

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Round Stemmed Prickly Pear CBM3301 SOLD	Greater Turk's Cap Melon Thistle CBM3090 SOLD	Van Royen's Cereus CBM3125 SOLD


Free-Flowering Cactus CBM2691 SOLD	Showy Red-Flowered Spurge CBM2902 SOLD	Mr. Otto's Echinocactus CBM3107 SOLD


Rose-Purple Billbergia CBM3304 SOLD	Spineless Cochineal Fig CBM2742 SOLD

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. And the double prints measure approximately 9 inches wide by 12 inches long. Prints are accompanied by the relevant original descriptive text.

Curtis Botanical Magazine Cactus Prints 1787-1826

Curtis Botanical Magazine Prints 1787-1826