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Lot 205
Description:
Robert Furber / Publisher, "Twelve Months of Flowers", 1730, Kensington, twelve hand-colored engravings after Pieter Casteels (Antwerp, 1684-1749), engraved by Henry Fletcher, sight 16 1/4 in. x 12 1/8 in., attractively matted and framed.
- Notes: Note: The Twelve Months of Flowers was the result of a collaboration of three leading figures in their respective fields in England in the first half of the eighteenth century: the artist, Pieter Casteels III, the engraver, Henry Fletcher and the nurseryman, Robert Furber. Undertaken as a commercial venture in order to sell bound sets of hand-colored copper engraved plates to a group of subscribers, it also served to showcase, by acting as a high-quality seed catalogue, Furber's nursery at Kensington. This was the first commercial horticultural catalogue of its time and as such, it represents a defining point in the history of botanical illustration and horticultural literature in Britain. Over four hundred separate species are depicted. In the plates the individual plants are numbered with a corresponding key listing them by name at the bottom, thus enabling customers to easily identify and order them.
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