“Twelve Months If The Year In Flowers” Framed Prints

About the original design:
“This remarkable set of still-lifes depicting The Twelve Months of the Year in Flowers was the result of the collaboration of three leading figures in their respective fields in England in the first half of the eighteenth century: the artist Pieter Casteels, the engraver Henry Fletcher, and the nurseryman Robert Furber. Undertaken as a commercial venture in order to sell bound sets of hand coloured engravings to a group of subscribers, it also served as a showcase, by acting as a high-quality seed catalogue, for 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.

This celebrated set of engraved plates, one for every month of the year, consists of an appropriate arrangement of flowers in a vase. In each print 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. Over four hundred separate species are depicted. The plates were advertised in Fog`s Weekly Journal of 25 September 1731 as being “completely furnished” and ready for delivery.”

11.2" x 14.2"

18%

Kat Liu and Kevin Condardo | (917) 409-8412 | katandkev@clearinghouseestatesales.com

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Greenwich, CT 06831

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Saturday, 7/18, 11:00 am to 4:00 pm

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