Australian Calythrix virgata. Twiggy Calythrix antique engraving. Curtis c1834

$140.00

Antique Print from Icosandria Monogynia of order Myrtaceae.

An Australian native botanical engraving with accompanying text "Calythrix, with Darwinia of Rudge,.. and probably five other Genera of the Australian Flora, constitute a very beautiful group of the Order Myrtaceae.." found in Australasia around Sydney at Port Jackson.

Original hand-coloured copperplate engraving by Swan after a drawing by the eminent botanist William Jackson Hooker for "Curtis’s Botanical Magazine" published in London circa 1834 by Samuel Curtis.  Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) was Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, then director of Kew Gardens in London. Begun in 1787 by William Curtis, The Botanical Magazine is still published today as “The Kew Magazine”. For over two hundred years these illustrations have been revered for their scientific accuracy. The stable watercolour pigments of the earliest engravings ensure their beauty endures today.

Size of page 230mm x 150mm (9 inches x 6 inches).

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