![]() Folly's Flowers - The Columbine (Columbine, White Lily, Lupine)ġ1. Poetic Fables - The Hyacinth (Blue Hyacinth, Tulip, White Camellia)ġ0. The Lilac Tree (Persian Lilac, Red Camellia, China Rose)ĩ. The Hollyhocks in the Old Hall Garden (Hollyhock, Major Convolvulus, Indian Pink)Ĩ. ![]() The Tulip (Tulip, Passion Flower, Sweet Peas)ħ. Eudora (White Geranium, Stock, Schizanthus)Ħ. The Fairy Couch (Dahlia, China Aster, Convolvulus)ĥ. The Naming of the Iris (Iris, Ranunculus, Hyacinth, Heath)Ĥ. Valerie Swain has been with Flora Gems since 2011 and together, we love providing beautiful jewelry, outstanding customer service, and a professional staff to serve your jewelry needs. Lilian (Narcissus, Anemone, Purple Stock)ģ. Flora Gems has been on the same street corner in Decatur since 1856, and we opened our second location in Champaign-Urbana in November, 2015. The highly colored plates in Flora's Gems: or, The Treasures of the Parterre (a formal garden) depict magnificent bouquets of various flowers.Ģ. In 1868, Andrews exhibited a piece called Earnest Andrews, a painting of fruit and flowers, at the Royal Academy of Art annual summer exhibition. In March 1857, his painting of fruit and a bowl in watercolour received a medal from the Royal Society of Agriculture and Botany in Ghent. He created the illustrations for the famous nature writer Sarah Bowdich Lee's 1854 book Trees, Plants, and Flowers: Their Beauties, Uses, and Influences. His first illustrated work was Flora's Gems (1830) for which Louisa Anne Twamley wrote the text. He also taught flower-painting to young ladies. James Andrews (1801-1876) was an English draughtsman, botanical painter and illustrator noted for his accomplished illustrations. "The covers are decorated with stamped and gilt bouquets of flowers in tall vases, typical of the age in which "Handsome and interesting ornaments for the drawing-room table" were in vogue." (Dunthorne). Lower 3 1/2 inches of front inner hinge slightly cracked - still the finest copy that we have ever seen. Spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, original yellow coated end-papers, all edges gilt. Publisher's green diaper-grain cloth, covers decoratively bordered and stamped in blind enclosing a large and quite magnificent gilt urn with flowers. Hand colored lithographed title and eleven superb hand-colored lithograph plates, all with their original tissue-guards. 20 unnumbered pages including half-title, title-page, contents, dedication leaf, and advertisement leaf at end. With Poetical Illustrations, by Louisa Anne Twamley. Twelve Bouquets, drawn and coloured from nature, by James Andrews. Flora's Gems: or, The Treasures of the Parterre. Item #04213 "Handsome and Interesting Ornaments for the Drawing-Room Table"ĪNDREWS, James. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.ANDREWS, James TWAMLEY, Louisa Anne Flora's Gems: or, The Treasures of the Parterre We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Īs a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. ![]() This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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