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A Group of Carnations

Robert John Thornton, plate 37

From The Temple of Flora

The print

Technique: Facsimile giclée
Sheet: 17¾ × 21¾ in, original size
Format: Folio
Paper: White etching paper, 270 g/m²
Ink: Archival ink
Edition: Limited to 250 prints

$235

Limited edition of 250

€210 incl. VAT in the EU

Plus $45 shipping, import duties included. Free from $500 or 3 prints.

Reproduced from the original in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem.

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Unframed, rolled in a hard carton tube
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A facsimile of the original sheet

Photographed from the plate in the Teylers Museum’s copy of The Temple of Flora, Haarlem.
Proofed against that sheet under daylight, until the colours match.
Printed at the full size of the sheet, with its margins and lettering, in an edition of 250.

How your print is made

A Group of Carnations shown in a black and gold frame — Shown framed. Frame not included.

A Group of Carnations shown in a dark wood frame — Shown framed. Frame not included.

Ready for your framer

Try three frame styles to see how the print hangs on a wall. Your print arrives unframed, as the full sheet with its margins, plate number and engraved caption.

About this plate

A Group of Carnations is plate 37 of The Temple of Flora by Robert John Thornton (1799–1807). This facsimile is made from the copy in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, and printed at the size of the original sheet, 17¾ × 21¾ in (45 × 55 cm).

About the original

Robert John Thornton (1768-1837), a London physician, published The Temple of Flora between 1799 and 1807 as the third part of his New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus. Artists such as Philip Reinagle, Peter Henderson and Sydenham Edwards painted the flowers, which Thornton placed in settings that evoke their origins; the plates combine mezzotint, aquatint, stipple and line engraving, printed in colour and finished by hand.

The project ruined Thornton: a lottery he organised in 1811 to raise funds failed, and he died poor.