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Vivid Visions: Roezl's Sage and Red Hot Poker in Botanical Art, circa 1875
$270 (£205, €240)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1875
- Size
- 9.8 × 6.7 in (25 × 17 cm)
- Condition
- Very good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
- Period
- Late 19th century
- Artist or book
- Louis van Houtte
- Section
- Botanical
- Reference
- f_41424092
Salvia roezlii and the red hot poker, two chromolithographs from Louis van Houtte's Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, dated about 1875. The first is lettered "Salvia Roezli Schwl." with the alternative name "Salvia dielytroides Roezl.", the origin "Mexique" and the note "Serre tempérée". The second is lettered "Tritoma uvaria Gawl." with "Kniphofia aloides Moench", the origin "Cap".
The first sheet shows a tall, branching spike of narrow tubular flowers in scarlet, each with a gold and orange calyx at its base, held above velvety, toothed green leaves. The second shows a single large conical flower spike, dense with overlapping orange-red buds that fade to cream and yellow at the base, with one broad green leaf arching over it from the back.
The plates show how the Ghent nursery's series gathered plants from different continents. Salvia roezlii was collected in Mexico by the plant hunter whose name it bears, while Tritoma uvaria, labeled "Cap" for the Cape of Good Hope, comes from South Africa.
