Small red Bessa botanical print. Lilium Philadelphicum image.

$20.00

Spectacular small dark red lily with its bulb, in typical style of early botanical illustration.

Reproduction from a hand-coloured copperplate engraving circa 1828-34 by Le Jeune after the drawing by distinguished French flower painter (and talented pupil of Pierre Joseph Redoute) Pancrace Bessa (1772-1835) for Flore desJardiniers, Amateurs et Manufacturiers d'apres les dessins de Bessa (Flora of Gardeners, Amateurs and Manufacturers after the designs of Bessa) published in Paris circa 1836.

Plate size is 250 x 165mm (10 x 6 1/2 inches).