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A Collection of Flowers Drawn from Nature: Large Double China Aster

John Edwards (British)1798

The Cleveland Museum of Art

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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