1804 William CURTIS Botanical IRIS SQUALENS Brown Flowered Plate 787 Botanical Hand-Colored order Engraving Copperplate Engraving in Paper Mount

1804 Edition of William CURTIS Botanical IRIS SQUALENS Brown Flowered Plate 787 Botanical Copper Engraving in Paper Mount

Hand drawn specimen for copper etching then hand colored in watercolors with descriptive text in bone colored paper mount.

Artist: William Curtis
Subject: Iris squalens

For William Curtis's The Botanical Magazine, or Flower-Garden Displayed.
Vol. XXI. Dated NOV order 1, 1804
Printing Methods: Copper etching / stone or zinc lithography
Techniques: Hand colored.