(BOTANICAL) Thornton Robert John The Sacred Egyptian Bean

Sale 2232 - Lot 164

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(BOTANICAL.) Thornton, Robert John. The Sacred Egyptian Bean. Hand-finished color-printed stipple and aquatint plate, from Thornton's Temple of Flora, on full folio sheet; matted and framed. London, 1804

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First and only state of the plate and considered by Dunthorne to be, "One of the best examples of colour printing, often as many as four colours are printed from the one plate at one time" - see page 251. This example printed with three rather than four colors, with the flower on the left in white rather than pink.