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Cupid Inspiring the Plants with Love, the first plate of the set
The first plate of the set, Cupid Inspiring the Plants with Love.

The Temple of Flora, complete set

By Robert John Thornton, 1799-1807

All 30 plates of The Temple of Flora as facsimile giclées at the size of the original sheet, kept in a Solander box the way a library keeps the original.

  • 30 plates, each 17¾ × 21¾ in
  • A title page and a contents page with the titles of all plates
  • A Solander box in linen with gold lettering, in the colour and lettering you choose
  • A certificate of authenticity

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The Temple of Flora

Contents

Robert John Thornton, 1799-1807

  1. 14Cupid Inspiring the Plants with Love
  2. 24The Snowdrop
  3. 26The Persian Cyclamen
  4. 28Hyacinth
  5. 32Roses
  6. 37A Group of Carnations
  7. 39A Group of Auriculas
  8. 41Tulips
  9. 47The Queen
  10. 51The American Aloe
  11. 55The Nodding Renealmia
  12. 57The Night Blowing Cereus
  13. 61The Oblique Leaved Begonia
  14. 65Large Flowering Sensitive Plant
  15. 69The Blue Passion Flower
  16. 71The Winged Passion Flower
  17. 75The Quadrangular Passion Flower
  18. 79The White Lily
  19. 83The Superb Lily
  20. 87The Dragon Arum
  21. 91The Maggot Bearing Stapelia
  22. 95Pitcher Plant
  23. 97The Pontic Rhododendron
  24. 101The American Cowslip
  25. 105The Narrow Leaved Kalmia
  26. 109The China Limodoron
  27. 113Indian Reed
  28. 121The Sacred Egyptian Bean
  29. 125The Blue Egyptian Water Lily
  30. 127Linnaeus in his Lapland Dress

The contents page in the box lists every plate. Each title opens the single print.

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.

Title
The Temple of Flora
Published
1799-1807
Format
Folio, 17¾ × 21¾ in
Original in
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Plates
30

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