William Curtis Botanical Prints 1787-1826

Please click on each image to enlarge and for prices

Click for Page: 1 2



	Seychelles Island Cocoa Nut Tree CBM2734A $225 Sale Price: $115 5 PRINT LOT with 10 Pages of TEXT


Purple fruited Guava CBM2501 $45 Sale Price: $25	Papaya Tree, Text copy only CBM2898 $65 Sale Price: $35	Skunk Cabbage CBM3224 $45 Sale Price: $25

Pedate Telfairia (2 prints)
CBM2752B $75
Sale Price: $40

Thea Viridis Green Tea
CBM3148 $85
Sale Price: SOLD


Broad-leaved Azorian Rhamnus CBM2663 $45 Sale Price: $25	Poison Tanghin CBM2968 $65 Sale Price: $35	Poplar-leaved Omalanthus CBM2780 $45 Sale Price: $25

Cut-flowered Mimusops
CBM3157 $45
Sale Price: $25

Bully-Tree (2 prints)
CBM3112 $85
Sale Price: $45

True Nutmeg Tree (2 prints)
CBM2756A $85
Sale Price: $45

Heart Leaved Manettia
CARN7 $45
Sale Price: $25


Clove Spice (2 prints) Complete Text CBM2749A, CBM2750B $85 Sale Price: $45		Noyau Cherry CBM3141 $45 Sale Price: $25

Blood flowered Indigofera CBM3065 $55 Sale Price: $35	American Hydrastis Golden Seal CBM3232 $75 Sale Price: $40	Tapicoa CBM3071 $45 Sale Price: $25

Narrow-leaved Cycas, 2 prints CBM2963 with more margin than shown at top, 2964 $95 Sale Price: $55

Click for Index

Click for Page: 1 2

Next >

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 & Tropical Plants 1787

Curtis Botanical Magazine Prints 1787-1826