The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing to which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature: being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yd. & John Bowles & Son, in Cornhil, [ca. 1760]
Physical Description:
16 pages, [1], 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsQK98.2 F56 1760Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title page is engraved."From 1753 to 1764 John Bowles and his son Carington Bowles were in partnership, and the business was styled 'John Bowles & Son'"--Henrey, III, p. 42.Below imprint: Price 6s. & colour'd 1£. 1s. 0d."The text and plates in 'The florist' were later copied and published under the title of 'Bowles's florist'"--Henrey, III, p. 42.Signatures: A-B⁴.Bridson, G. Plant, animal & anatomical illustration, C277Henrey, B. British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800, 708BAC: British Art Center copy is uncolored. Bound in later half leather.
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
Subject Terms:
Flowers in art -- Early works to 1800. | Botanical illustration -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. | Drawing -- Technique. | Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Watercolor painting -- Technique. | Watercolor painting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.