Cyclamen purpurascens
Title: „Cyclamen, Aprile florens, folio magno, angulato…“
Beautiful depiction of this light purple or pink flower.
Original coloured copper engraving by Maddalena Bouchard, on heavy paper with wide margins, Tab. 68, from „Hortus Romanus“, Rome 1775.
Sheet size: 55 x 39,2 cm; Print size: 36 x22 cm
Beautiful print and colours, some small stains, altogether in very good condition.
€ 680,-
From the very rare botanical work "Hortus Romanus", published in eight volumes by Giorgio Bonelli in Rome between 1772 and 1793. Only a small number of copies was printed - probably not even the planned 300 - and just a handful originally coloured. Most of the depictions were engraved - and a few also coloured by Maddalena Bouchard herself, after drawings by C. Ubertini.