Fine Rare Prints

Sir Joseph Paxton's Flower Garden Displayed From 1882

CD of incredibly detailed scans of 36 large antique prints of beautiful flowers

NEW BENEFIT ! This CD has even higher resolution images - 200dpi resolution instead of 150dpi on most of our other CDs

Page down to see a selection of the prints, the contents list and to read about their history

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Benefits

• Save money - print accurate copies of beautiful antique prints for a fraction of their cost

• Study them before investing in the original prints

• Illustrate educational projects

• Use them to create art, greeting cards, calendars, postcards and posters, computer wallpaper and clip art

• Enjoy the screensaver of the prints

Features

• Scans are of the original antique prints

• Scans are exactly same dimensions as original antique print

• Scans are saved as bitmap files (.bmp) so all detail is retained (unlike jpg files)

• Each image file is several megabytes large! Prints were scanned at 300dpi and saved at 150dpi (similar to the resolution of most digital photos)

• Print direct from the CD or from programs such as Microsoft Picture It, Adobe Photoshop, Corel PhotoPaint, Macromedia Fireworks and Paint Shop Pro

Information

This CD contains detailed scans of all the prints in the 1882 edition of Paxton's Flower Garden Displayed. This contained some of the most vivid and splendidly colored botanical prints ever produced.

Sir Joseph Paxton was a hugely talented man. He started as an assistant gardener with no education & rose to become the head gardener to the Duke of Devonshire. His design of the conservatory at Chatsworth House served as a model for his design of the Crystal Palace for the London Exhibition of 1851. Incredibly, he designed this giant, intricate building in less than 9 days on a piece of blotting paper. The man must have been a genius!

His Magazine of Botany series, published in 16 volumes from 1834-1849 have become highly prized for their brilliant colors and the outstanding beauty of the plants illustrated. He also published Paxton’s Flower Garden which is much rarer and larger than his Magazine of Botany. The superb illustrations are the work of Constans & Prevost who produced paintings of "miraculous, fine quality" according to Wilfred Blunt. Their illustrations for this work are considered superior to those of the Magazine of Botany.

1 - Orchid: The Thick Leaved Air Plant - Aerides crassifolium. - Peru, Colombia
2 - The Palmate Leaved Spiraea - Spiraea palmata - Japan
3 - Orchid - Dendrobium superbiens - North Australia
4 - The White Cunningham Rhodedendron - Rhodedendron cinnamomeum - Hybrid
5 - Boronia - Boronia elatior - SW Australia
6 - Pitcher Plant: Drummond's Side Saddle Flower - Sarracenia Drummondii - USA - Florida
7 - Orchid - Odontoglossum vexillarium - Colombia
8 - The Deep Blood-Coloured Moutan - Moutan officinalis atrosanguinea - China
9 - The Red Nepenthes - One of most magnicent Pitcher Plants - Nepenthes Sanguinea - Malacca
10 - Dampier's Clianth - Clianthus dampieri - Australia
11 - The Rose Coloured Water Lily - Nymphea alba var. Rosea - Hybrid from Sweded
12 - The Long Tailed Lady's Slipper - Cypripedium candatum - Peru
13 - Hardy Azaleas - Judith, Meteor, Silvio - Hybrids
14 - Orchid: Ruby Lipped Cattleya - Cattleya labiata - Colombia
15 - Orchid: The Blue Bollea - Bollea coelestis - Tropical South America including Colombia and Ecuador
16 - Double Chinese Peach Trees - Amygdalus persica - China
17 - Rhododendron Seedling Variety - Rhodedendron (Edge of paper significantly chipped) - Hybrid
18 - The Magnificent Medinill - Medinilla magnifica - Java and Marianna Islands
19 - Andre's Anthurium - Anthurium andraeanum - Colombia
20 - The Crimped Gueldres Rose - Viburnum plicatum - China
21 - Orchid: Klaboch's Pescatorea - Pescatorea klabochorum - Colombia and Ecuador
22 - The Kamtchatka Rhodotham - Rhodothamnus kamtchaticus - Siberia
23 - The Very Slender Jasmine - Jasminum gracillimum - Borneo
24 - The Salmon Coloured Moutan - Moutan officinalis salmonea - China
25 - Orchid: The Cervantes Odontoglot - Odontoglossum cervantes - Mexico
26 - Orchid: The Purple Lipped Oncid - Oncidium haematochilum - Colombia
27 - The Close Headed Bejaria - Bejaria coarcata - Colombia
28 - The Oval and Pallid Hoyas - Hoya Ovalifolia and pallida - India
29 - Butterfly Orchid - Phalaenopsis intermedia var Portei - Phillipines
30 - Blue Flowers - Chionodoxa lucilliae - Asia Minor and Crete
31 - The Mountain Ixiolirion - Ixiolirion montanum - Syria
32 - Orchid: The Sweet Trichopil - Trichopilia suavis - Central America Costa Rica to Colombia
33 - The Copious Flowered Crab - Pyrus floribunda - China and Japan
34 - Walker's Cattleya - Cattleya walkeriana - Brazil
35 - The Showy Senecio - Senecio speciousus - South Africa
36 - Orchid: The Speckled Odontoglot - Odontoglussum nevium - Colombia

Date

1882. The scans were made from the original antique prints

Source

Paxton’s Flower Garden Displayed

Print method

Chromolithograph - each color was printed with a printing stone

Condition

The prints were in very good condition. The colors were fresh and bright.
Some of the prints had what is called a blind library stamp. This is an imprint made on the surface of the paper recording ownership of the print. We have left these on the scans for authenticity, it is straightforward to remove this if you wish with software such as Adobe Photoshop.

Size

The prints measured about 11 by 8½ inches (28 by 21 cm)