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White Cupflower and Hairy Toadflax, Hand-Coloured Botanical Print, 1874
€140 ($155, £120, €140)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1874
- Size
- 9.8 × 6.5 in (24.9 × 16.5 cm)
- Condition
- Good. Very good antique condition with minimal signs of age. Clean image area and vibrant colour. Slight toning near margins.
- Period
- Late 19th century
- Section
- Botanical
- Reference
- f_44660982
White cupflower and hairy toadflax, a hand-colored lithograph of 1874 from the second series of Alpine Plants, published in London by George Bell & Sons. The plate is numbered "VII" and lettered with the two Latin names, Nierembergia rivularis and Linaria villosa.
The upper plant, Nierembergia rivularis, grows as a low rosette of rounded green leaves from which rise several large white, cup-shaped flowers with a yellow center, shown against a soft gray cloud-like ground. Below it, Linaria villosa trails diagonally across the lower half of the sheet in a loose, spreading mat of small gray-green leaves, with small lilac and pale violet flowers marked with yellow.
Nierembergia rivularis is a native of southern South America, from where it reached European gardens, while the toadflax is a Mediterranean plant, so the plate combines a South American and a European species under the alpine heading.
