Amphicome arguta. Bignonia, Incarvillea arguta. Paxton antique print c1845.

by Paxton, Joseph

Finely-cut leaved Amphicome botanical lithograph. Pretty pink trumpet-flowered climber.

Original hand-coloured notanical 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 hard-working visionary. 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. Paxton was recognised as botanist, 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 - which gained him a knighthood. He later became a magistrate and also a member of Parliamant.

Size is 230 x 155mm (9 x 6 inches).