CollectionsNew 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; a...
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; a...
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.
Statement of responsibility: By Robert John Thornton ...
Date: Date issued: [i.e. 1799-1810].
Date: Most leaves of plates dated, with some leaves dated 1810.
Content: Vol. 1: [76] p., [126] leaves of plates; v. 2: [160] p. [39] leaves of plates.
Content: Engraved half-title at the beginning of v. 1: A British trophy on honour of Linnæus. Engraved special title-pages include one for v. 3 dated: January the 1st. MDCCXCIC. [1799]; special t.p. for 2nd part of v. 1: The prize dissertation on the sexes of plants / by Carolus von Linnæus ... 1759.
Content: The color plates, basically printed in color and then finished by hand, include aquatints, mezzotints, stipple engravings, etc. by many artists.
Indexed in: Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration, 1955 ; Dunthorne, G. Flower and fruit plants, 301.
Physical Description
Extent: 2 v. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 59 cm. (fol.)
x 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. ..