Australian Acacia intermedia. Intermediate Acacia. Australian Wattle. Curtis c1832.

by Hooker, William Jackson

Finely engraved and hand-coloured Australian wattle, with dissections below the flower and foliage "from the Royal Gardens at Kew, where it has been long cultivated among the plants that were the earliest introduced from New Holland."

Antique print engraved by Swan after a drawing by eminent botanist, William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) for The Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden Displayed published in London circa 1834 by Samuel Curtis. Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) was Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, after which he became director of Kew Gardens in London. Illustrations for Curtis's Botanical Magazine have been revered for their scientific accuracy. The natural pigments used in the earliest engravings have survived over two hundred years, ensuring their beauty endures today.

Publication of The Botanical Magazine was begun in 1787 by William Curtis (1746-1799), Praefectus Hortis of Chelsea Physic Garden in London, “in response.. to solicitations for a work... (combining) Botany and Gardening”. Illustrating botanical specimens from around the world, this publication has been published continuously for nearly 240 years, now as Kew Magazine.

Size of page 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). This is a beautiful engraving, but there are slight vertical marks left of the image, and light paper stretching at top left. Price reduced.