A Collection of Flowers Drawn from Nature: Large Double China Aster (1798): Art, History and Details

A Collection of Flowers Drawn from Nature: Large Double China Aster (1798) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is John Edwards (British).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Edwards was one of the best botanical draftsmen of the 18th century. Large Double China Aster is from a superb and extremely rare book with 77 plates illustrating a variety of beautiful flowers. The coloring is particularly fine owing to the use of pale printer’s ink that does not interfere with the delicacy of the watercolor.

Object facts

• Title: A Collection of Flowers Drawn from Nature: Large Double China Aster
• Date: 1798
• Creator attribution: John Edwards (British)
• Culture: England, late 18th-early 19th Century
• Type: Print
• Technique: etching, hand colored
• Dimensions: Image: 43.4 x 31.5 cm (17 1/16 x 12 3/8 in.); Platemark: 34 x 25 cm (13 3/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Etching
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1955.460

Collection credit

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of Mrs. William G. Mather

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