New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus : comprehending an elucidation of the several parts of the fructification; a prize dissertation on the sexes of plants; a full explanation of the classes, and orders, of the sexual system; and The temple of flora, or Garden of nature, being picturesque, botanical, coloured plates, of select plants, illustrative of the same, with descriptions. ...
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Robert John Thornton's Temple of flora, or to provide the beginning of its official title, New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linneaus: ... (1807 [i.e. 1799-1810]) was famous in its time. The work is the result of a collaboration of a team of painters and engravers under Thornton's direction, and the florilegium they produced has a striking unity of tone and appearance. Unlike his contemporary, the celebrated flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté, whose fine portraits of individual plants appear against a white background,Thornton and his artists set their flowers in moody and evocative landscapes, symbolic of the plants being depicted.
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection
Shelf locator: MED+++ T514 (Thornton, R. J. New illustration of the sexual system)