The American Cowslip, Plate 26
Medium
Etching with printed and hand-applied color, aquatint, stipple, and engraving
Dimensions
image: 44.7 × 35.7 cm · sheet: 55.3 × 46 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in memory of Mrs. Ralph King
Accession Number
1952.213
Rights
Public Domain
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About this artwork
Fueled by scientific and colonial expeditions that brought back plant specimens from across the globe, the science of botany blossomed in Enlightenment Europe. This print is from a sumptuously illustrated treatise known as The Temple of Flora. Commissioned and published by Dr. Robert John Thornton, a British medical botanist, the work illustrates the new plant classification system of Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus. Yet while these prints realistically depict buds, flowers, and leaves, they sho...