Rosa Rapa, pink rose botanical engraving with printed plate text – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Rosa Rapa, pink rose botanical engraving with printed plate text, preserved in this antique engraving. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Rosa Rapa, pink rose botanical engraving with printed plate text
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Lead with the pink rose itself: the plate shows a single rose drawn with fine line work, its petals and leaves set against a field of printed text that identifies the species. Botanical engravings like this one were built to be accurate first, so the figure is meant to be checked against the living plant, and the lettering around it is part of the document as much as the decoration. Prints of this type were widely used in natural history books from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when plant identification depended on exact drawings. Look closely at the hatching in the petals, which shows how engravers used tight parallel lines to suggest the soft shading of a bloom.
| Original scan | 1,135 × 1,456 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g05353_ |
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