Object Number 1966.1049 A

Object Name

Print (Etching)

Title

FLORA/ Or a curious collection of y.\e most/ BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS/ as they appear in their greatest/ Perfection each Month of/ the year.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

Remi Parr (Etcher)
1723

Pieter Casteels (Painter)
1684-1749

John Bowles (Publisher)
c.1701-1779
John Bowles traded under his own name from c. 1724-1754 and 1764-1779. He trained his son Carington Bowles (1724-1792) and they traded together as John Bowles and Son from 1754 to 1764. John's brother Thomas Bowles (1712-1767) had a similar business in St. Paul's Churchyard, which Carington took over in 1764 when his uncle retired. Carington and John then began trading separately under their own names. Carington was succeeded by his son Henry Carington Bowles (1763-1830), who printed under the name Bowles & Carver (with Samuel Carver). John was succeeded by Robert Wilkinson. John Bowles, and later John Bowles and Son, used the inscription "at the Black Horse in Cornhill" until 1766, when fire damaged his shop. He relocated to No. 13 Cornhill by 1768.

Place of Origin

London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Date

1744-1745

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower right, beneath image; Parr Sculp
2. Inscription; Lower center; Printed for Iohn Bowles at Mercers Hall in Cheapside.

Subjects

Still life; Botanical illustration

Materials

Ink; Watercolor; Paper (laid)

Techniques

Line Etched with minimal burin work, Hand colored, Painted

Dimensions (inches)

14.5 (H) , 10.5 (W) , 13.2 (Image H) , 9.5 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

36.8 (H) , 26.6 (W) , 13.2 (Image H) , 9.5 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

Plate H: 13.8 in. (35.1 cm). Plate W: 9.9 in. (25.2 cm). Chain interval: 2.5-2.7 cm.; laid line frequency: 9 per cm. H at left. W at bottom.

Publisher Summary

Bowles, John

Place of Publication

Mercers Hall in Cheapside, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Watermark

Lily in a coat-of-arms with a coronet at the top and "4" at the base, with the initials: "LVG" at the bottom, and a countermark "IV"

Coloring

Hand colored with translucent watercolors

Edition Notes

This is the title page from a collection of twelve designs, representing flowers associated with each month of the year. From the quarto edition of engravings after flower paintings by Pieter Casteels. Watermark is a Van Gelder Strassburg lily.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1991 To Please Every Taste: Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Winterthur Museum.
• Published: no. 69 , p. 174.
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 148, pp. 224-225.