Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Night-Blowing Cereus
Engraver: Robert Dunkarton; After Philip Reinagle; Moonlight by William Pether; Publisher: Dr. Robert John Thornton
- Date
- May 20, 1800
- Medium
- Mezzotint, printed in color and hand-colored
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Though his attempt to publish The Temple of Flora bankrupted him, Robert Thornton earned enduring fame for his efforts. Of the lugubrious setting for what we know as the night-blooming cereus, he said, in the night-blowing Cereus… you have the moon playing on the dimpled water, and the turret-clock points XII, the hour at night when this flower is in its full expanse. England, Europe
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