Cleveland Museum of Art

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

John Edwards

Date

1798

Medium

etching, hand colored

Culture

England, late 18th-early 19th Century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Edwards was one of the best botanical draftsmen of the 18th century. Large Double China Aster 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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