![[The Ladies Flower-Garden or Ornamental Annuals.] Pl. 5.](jpegs/59155.jpg)
[The Ladies Flower-Garden or Ornamental Annuals.] Pl. 5.1. Roemaria hybrida. 2. Glaucium luteum. 3. Glaucium Phoenicium. 4.Aigemone Mexicana albi flora. 5. Aigemone Mexicana.
[by Mrs. Loudon.] Day & Haghe lith.rs to the Queen.
[London: William Smith, 113 Fleet Street. MDCCCXLII [1842]]
Fine hand coloured lithograph, sheet 285 x 215mm (11¼ x 8½"). Some foxing.
Features the yellow horned poppy / sea poppy, the red horned poppy, the white prickly poppy and the Mexican prickly poppy. From 'The Ladies Flower-Garden or Ornamental Annuals,' by Jane Wells Webb Loudon (1807-58). Loudon was an English author and early pioneer of science fiction. She also created the first popular gardening manuals, as opposed to specialist horticultural works, reframing the art of gardening as fit for young women. She was married to the well-known horticulturalist John Claudius Loudon (1783 - 1843), and they wrote some books together, as well as her own very successful series.
[Ref: 59155] £65.00
[London: William Smith, 113 Fleet Street. MDCCCXLII [1842]]
Fine hand coloured lithograph, sheet 285 x 215mm (11¼ x 8½"). Some foxing.
Features the yellow horned poppy / sea poppy, the red horned poppy, the white prickly poppy and the Mexican prickly poppy. From 'The Ladies Flower-Garden or Ornamental Annuals,' by Jane Wells Webb Loudon (1807-58). Loudon was an English author and early pioneer of science fiction. She also created the first popular gardening manuals, as opposed to specialist horticultural works, reframing the art of gardening as fit for young women. She was married to the well-known horticulturalist John Claudius Loudon (1783 - 1843), and they wrote some books together, as well as her own very successful series.
[Ref: 59155] £65.00