Rare Large Lithograph Print from a Scarce 1956 folio of Pierre Joseph Redoute's 'Roses'

Depiction: Italian Damask Rose 

Details of The Listed Print For Sale

Original vintage litho print circa 1956. Freshly mounted ready for framing backed and sealed, great overall condition condition. You will receive the item pictured, so the pictures are integral to the condition report and listing. Please inspect the pictures closely, as given its age there may be some minor age spots / marks.  This and the others come from a large private library and have been in the same family for a number of decades. This is a large size piece, there is a set of key in some pictures, this is to give you an idea of scale, these are not included in the sale. International shipping his higher than usual as the dimensions exceed the Royal Mail standard size, and we need to use a premium service, we are able to combine shipping where possible - just ask. 

Approx Mount Size: 18.25" x 14.5" Inches

Approx Visible Size of Print: 14.75" x 11" Inches APPROX

You will receive the item pictured, so the pictures are integral to the condition report and listing. This and the others come from a large private library and have been in the same family for a number of decades. 

Pierre-Joseph Redouté 

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (10 July 1759 – 19 June 1840), was a painter and botanist from Belgium, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison. He was nicknamed "the Raphael of flowers" and has been called the greatest botanical illustrator of all time.[1]

He was an official court artist of Queen Marie Antoinette, and he continued painting through the French Revolution and Reign of Terror. Redouté survived the turbulent political upheaval to gain international recognition for his precise renderings of plants, which remain as fresh in the early 21st century as when first painted. He collaborated with the greatest botanists of his day and participated in nearly fifty publications depicting both the familiar flowers of the French court and plants from places as distant as Japan, America, South Africa, and Australia. He was painting during a period in botanical illustration (1798 – 1837) that is noted for the publication of outstanding folio editions with coloured plates. Redouté produced over 2,100 published plates depicting over 1,800 different species, many never rendered before. Today he is seen as an important heir to the tradition of the Flemish and Dutch flower painters Brueghel, Ruysch, van Huysum and de Heem.