A Collection of Flowers Drawn from Nature: Large Double China Aster
- Medium
- 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.)
- Genre
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
England, late 18th-early 19th Century
About
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.
