(BOTANICAL) Havell Robert; Junior Prize Pinks

Sale 2369 - Lot 283

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

(BOTANICAL.) Havell, Robert; Junior. Prize Pinks. Exceptionally scarce separately issued line- and stipple-engraved, aquatinted, and color-printed plate, finished by hand, depicting five carnation variants. 265x222 mm, trimmed at least to the platemark, but with ample room around lettering and image; remnants of brown paper mounts adhered to four corners on verso, with a trifle show-through onto the recto, one small spot on recto. London: R. Havell Junr., 79 Newman Street, Oxford Street, [circa 1828-1830]

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The print features five carnation blossoms labeled: "1 Penneys Queen"; "2 Davids Britannia"; "3 Lady Ackland"; "4 Stevens Waterloo"; "5 Turners George 4th". In 1830 the Gardener's Magazine took issue with Havell's depiction of the flowers: "[They are] beautifully executed; but so far unpleasing to a practical man, in that they are made all to spring from the same root. This may seem a trifling matter; but truth and nature ought not be violated, even on the most trifling occasion." This is the only mention of the print that we have found.