The florist , [ca. 1760]
- Title(s):
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 CollectionView by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13201854
- 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, C277
Henrey, B. British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800, 708
BAC: British Art Center copy is uncolored. Bound in later half leather. - Subject Terms:
- Botanical illustration -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.Drawing -- Technique.Flowers in art -- Early works to 1800.Watercolor painting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.Watercolor painting -- Technique.
- Form/Genre:
- Drawing books.
Etchings -- 1760. - Export:
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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