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A Collection of Flowers Drawn from Nature: Large Double China Aster
John Edwards (British)1798
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Edwards was one of the best botanical draftsmen of the 18th century.<em> Large Double China Aster </em>is from a superb and extremely rare book with 77 plates illustrating a variety of beautiful flowers. The coloring is particularly fine owing to the use of pale printer’s ink that does not interfere with the delicacy of the watercolor.
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- Title: A Collection of Flowers Drawn from Nature: Large Double China Aster
- Creator: John Edwards (British)
- Date Created: 1798
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 43.4 x 31.5 cm (17 1/16 x 12 3/8 in.); Platemark: 34 x 25 cm (13 3/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.460
- Medium: etching, hand colored
- Department: Prints
- Culture: England, late 18th-early 19th Century
- Credit Line: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of Mrs. William G. Mather
- Collection: PR - Etching
- Accession Number: 1955.460
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