The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing. To which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art.

Date:
[1760?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing. To which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    J\-£. Double-CHINA aster. THIS Flower varies in Colour From White, to the deepeft Crimfon, or blue Purple. The Centre in the Single Ones, is Yellow •, the Stalk is Brown, and the Leaves a ftrong Green. GUERNSEY LILLY. THIS Flower is a beautiful pale Crimfon, and when feen in the Sunfhine, appears fpangled with Gold, beyond the Power of Art to imitate ; fo that the Student mull be content with making it a delicate Crimfon, by Di¬ rections already given for Flowers of the fame Colour. The Leaves area blue Green. The Stalk Green, ting’d with a rediflh Brown towards the Bottom. NASTURTIAN. THIS Flower is, in Nature, the richeft Orange-Co lour that can be conceiv’d. The belt Method of imitating is, by a Lay of ftrong Gam¬ boge all over ; upon that another of Red-Lead, leaving the Yellow in the lighteft Parts, and fhadowing very neatly with Carmine. On the two largefl Petals, feven or eight Lines mull be very corredlly drawn, with a deep Pur¬ ple, made with Indico and Carmine. The Stalks and Leaves are a pleafant Green, made with Prujfian Blue and Sap-Green, fhadow’d with the fame Colours. J\8. HEART’s-EASE. THE two upper Petals of this Flower are a rich Purple : The other three Yellow, or Straw Colour, edg’d and otherwife ftain^d with Purple, or Olive Colour, with very fine Lines of a deep Purple j beginning at the Bafe, and fpreading delicately over each Petal. The Stalk and Leaves are a plea¬ fant Green. CONVOL VULUS. BLUE is the principal Colour of the Convolvulus ; but the Bafe is ftain’d with Yellow, which gradually becomes White, and fpreads itfelf in Rays like a Star in the Centre. The Leaves and Stalk are a whitifh Green. £0. ALTHEA FRUTEX. TH E Flower is White, ftained with a redifh Purple at its Bafe. The Clufter of Buttons is Yellow. The Stalk dark Brown. The Leaves a pleafant Green. FRENCH