Australian Pultenaea cordata. Sharp Heart-leaved Pultenea. Curtis engraving c1835

by Hooker, William Jackson

Antique print of Australian Pultenaea juniperina - by Labillardiere.

Finely hand-coloured engraved botanical illustration with uncoloured details of the flower and foliage and dissections. "This plant was raised at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1832, from seeds sent from Van Diemen's Land the year before, by Campbell Riddell, Esq... highly ornamental, notwithstanding the lurid colour of its foliage and branches."!

Original finely engraved antique print by Joseph Swan (1796-1872) after a drawing by the eminent botanist, William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865). Published by Samuel Curtis in 1835 for Curtis's Botanical Magazine. With illustrations of botanical specimens from around the world, accompanied by information on their cultivation in England, William Curtis (1746-1799), “in response.. to solicitations for a work... (combining) Botany and Gardening” began publishing The Botanical Magazine in 1787. Now The Kew Magazine it is the longest running continuously issued illustrated botanical publication in the world. Illustrations for The Botanical Magazine are revered for their scientific accuracy as well as the beauty of their illustrations. The natural pigments used to colour the earliest engravings have survived over two hundred years. 

Size of page 230 x 150mm (9 x 6 inches). This fine engraving is mounted between antique white ragmat conservation board, with the accompanying text hinged to the rear, with the whole covered with cellophane for presentation and protection until framed. The external size for frame window is 350 x 270mm (13 3/4 x 10 5/8 inches). Slight offsetting of text. Price adjusted.