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The Superb Lily
Robert John Thornton, plate 83
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.Including VAT. Free shipping in the Netherlands; elsewhere €26.50, free from €450 or 3 prints.
Reproduced from the original in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
- Free shipping from $500 or 3 prints, otherwise $45. Import duties included.Free shipping in the Netherlands. Elsewhere free from €450 or 3 prints, otherwise €26.50.
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- Unframed, rolled in a hard carton tube
- Returns within 14 days
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.
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About this plate
The Superb Lily is plate 83 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.
- Title
- The Temple of Flora
- Published
- 1799-1807
- Format
- Folio
- Original in
- Teylers Museum, Haarlem
- In our collection
- 30 prints
