From ThePrintsCollector, Zeeland, Netherlands
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Plate: 'Calceolaria Plantaginea.' (Plantain-leaved Slipper-wort.) Original colour lithograph on a vellin type paper. Description: This attractive original old antique print / plate originates from: 'Flora and Sylva. A monthly review for lovers of garden, woodland, tree or flower; new and rare plants, trees, shrubs, and fruits; the garden beautiful, home woods, and home landscape.', a periodical published in England 1903 - 1905.Artists and Engravers: William Robinson (1838 - 1935) was a horticultural pioneer to whom modern gardening style owes much. He was instrumental in breaking away from the intensely formalized tradition of stylized bedding to a more relaxed and natural use of perennials and the "wild garden." He is considered the father of modern English gardening. As publisher of Flora and Sylva (1903-05), he found the perfect illustrator in Henry G Moon, whom he met when Moon responded to an advertisement Robinson had placed. Moon, a well-educated young man from a prosperous family, had been forced to go to work in a solicitor's office when his father's premature death left the family in impecunious circumstances. Robinson hired him to illustrate Flora and Sylva, where Moon developed the characteristic elegant style which showed each plant in its full beauty without the overblown rendering and artificial enhancement so typical of the Victorian era botanical illustration. Condition: Fine. General age related toning and foxing. Please study scan carefully. Storage location: A139-33 The overall size is ca. 8.5 x 12 inch. The image size is ca. 6.1 x 12 inch. The overall size is ca. 21.5 x 30.5 cm. The image size is ca. 15.5 x 30.5 cm. Seller Inventory # 19420
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