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Auction 128, Lot 906

"[Lot of 11 - Flowers]", Maund, Benjamin

Subject: Prints Botanical

Period: 1845-50 (circa)

Publication: The Botanist…

Color: Hand Color

Size:
6.5 x 8 inches
16.5 x 20.3 cm
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This group of botanical engravings are the more desirable of Maund's work as they have one flower per engraved page. Maund was a pharmacist, botanist and bookseller who was most noted as the publisher of several botanical periodicals with beautifully colored plates. As beautiful and visually pleasing as these hand colored engravings are, they were also an important botanic resource as a small portion of each was left uncolored so that the viewer may more readily see the leaf and flower structure.

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Condition: A

Estimate: $250 - $350

Sold for: $190

Closed on 5/20/2009

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