Robert John Thornton: The Temple of Flora

by Robert John Thornton, Werner Dressendorfer, Petra Lamers-Schuetze (Editor)

A stunning achievement in botanical illustration The complete reprint of all color plates from Robert John Thornton's monumental work The Temple of Flora, first published in London in 1799. Presented as 35 loose-leaf Elephant folio-sized color prints as well as a booklet including an introduction and the original texts of the 31 botanical plates TASCHEN's Temple of Flora consists of the following, packaged in a presentation case: a 44-page booklet including author Werner Dressend????rfer's introduction as well as the texts of the 31 botanical plates 33 loose-leaf Elephant folio-sized color prints for browsing or framing

Genres: Art

160 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2008

About the author

1768?-1837

Reviews

[Evelyne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautifully illustrated, plates can also be framed ♥️

[Lara · Rating 5 out of 5]

The illustrations are beautiful