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Pharbitis ostrina. Royal Purple Gaybine convolvula. Joseph Paxton c1842.

Pharbitis ostrina. Royal Purple Gaybine convolvula. Joseph Paxton c1842.

by Paxton, Joseph

Stunning Ipomoea (Convolvulus) vine antique print. Holden lithograph.

Original hand-coloured lithograph, drawn and lithographed by Samuel Holden for Joseph Paxton's Magazine of Botany & Register of Flowering Plants, published in London c1842.

Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-1865) was a hugely talented man. Starting as a gardener at 14, with little education, his enthusiasm, ability and application were rewarded by employment when 23 as Head Gardener of the Duke of Devonshire’s Chatsworth Estate - one of England’s finest gardens. Although best known as a landscape gardener, Paxton became both architect and engineer. His design for a glass house conservatory at Chatsworth served as a model for Paxton’s design of the Crystal Palace for London's Great International Exhibition of 1851 (for which he received his knighthood).

Size is 230 x 155mm (9 x 6 inches). Faint soiling. Price reduced.

Stock Number: apJPpharb.ostPrice: $175.00

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