Yale Center for British Art

Title:
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 & Jno. Bennett, no. 53 Fleet Street, Carn. Bowles, no. 69 St. Pauls Church Yard, Robt. Wilkinson, no. 58 Cornhill, [between 1770 and 1784?]
Physical Description:
16 pages, [1], 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title page is engraved.
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.
Form/Genre:
Drawing books. | Etchings -- Hand-colored. -- 1760.
Contributors:
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793, publisher. | Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm), publisher.