William Curtis Botanical Prints 1787-1826

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Whole-coloured Gaillardia CBM2940 $55	Beautiful Clarkia CBM2918 $55	Large-flowered Collomia CBM2894 $45


Mint-leaved Monarda CBM2958 $45	Red-flowered Currant CBM3335 $45	Decumbent Small-flowered Evening Primrose CBM2889 $45


Sea-shore Lupine CBM2952 $45	Esculent Squill or Camass CBM2774 $55	Tall-Pentstemon CBM2954 $45


Narrow-leaved Collomia CBM2895 $45	Ovate-leaved Pentstemon CBM2903 SOLD	Large Purple-flowered Twiggy Evening Primrose CBM2873 SOLD


Cluster-flowered Gilia CBM2698 $45	Lesser American Bird's-eye Primrose CBM2973 $45	Northern Calypso CBM2763 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. Prints are accompanied by the relevant original descriptive text.

Curtis Botanical Magazine prints from the Northwest Coast of America 1787

Curtis Botanical Magazine Prints 1787-1826