The Superb Lily, 1799

Not on View

New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus: The Temple of Flora (plate XXI)

mezzotint with etching on wove paper [proof]

plate: 48.5 x 35.8 cm (19 1/8 x 14 1/8 in.)

sheet: 51 x 39 cm (20 1/16 x 15 3/8 in.)

Dunthorne 1938, no. 26

2002.62.1

William Ward (artist) British, 1766 - 1826

Philip Reinagle (artist after) British, 1749 - 1833

Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (C. G. Boerner Limited, London); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Boerner LLC, C.G.

1938: Dunthorne, Gordon. Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Washington, 1938.

2002: C.G. Boerner. English Mezzotints from the Lennox-Boyd Collection. New York, 2002: no. 78.