William Curtis Botanical Prints 1787-1826

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Salmon-Coloured Blood-Flower CBM1075 $55	Waved-leaved Blood-Flower CBM1315 $55	Tiger-spotted Blood-flower CBM1705 $55


Largest common Soap-Aloe CBM1346 $55	Spotted-leaved Aloe CBM1323 $55	Mitre Aloe CBM1270 $55


Red-spined Glaucous Aloe CBM1278 $45	Spotted-leaved Aloe CBM1323A $55	Small-spined Aloe CBM2272 $45

Five-leaved Pothos
CBM1375 $55

Two-Coloured Arum
CBM820 $55

Green-flowered Roxburghia
CBM1500 $55


Pyramidal-flowered Bromelia CBM1732 $45	Blood-stained Billbergia CBM2892 $45	Frosted stiff-leaved Tillandsia CBM1529 $45


Arrow-leaved Pothos CBM1584 $55	Round-leaved Bloodflower CBM1618 $55	The Bourbon Aloe CBM1585 $45

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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 Exotic & Carnivorous Plants 1787

Curtis Botanical Magazine Prints 1787-1826