[Aquilegia caerulea] / W. Fitch, del. et lith. ; Vincent Brooks, imp. – Historic Reproduction
![[Aquilegia caerulea] / W. Fitch, del. et lith. ; Vincent Brooks, imp., [published 1864] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/de/de567f766fb6-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with [Aquilegia caerulea] / W. Fitch, del. et lith. ; Vincent Brooks, imp., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Aquilegia caerulea] / W. Fitch, del. et lith. ; Vincent Brooks, imp.
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The blue-and-white spurred flower here is the Colorado columbine, *Aquilegia caerulea*, a mountain plant of the Rocky Mountains that was little known in Britain when this plate appeared. The drawing was made by W. Fitch, the botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch, and lithographed and printed by Vincent Brooks, one of London's leading lithographic printers. It was issued as plate 5477 in *Curtis's Botanical Magazine* in 1864, a monthly periodical that for decades gave readers accurate, hand-colored portraits of newly discovered and cultivated plants. Look closely at the long nectar spurs and the outward-curving petals, which the engraver had to capture precisely for botanists to identify the species.
| Created / published | [published 1864] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1860-1870.Botanical illustrations 1860-1870.Lithographs Hand-colored 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Curtis's Botanical magazine / London : Reeve Brothers, 1864, v. 90, pl. 5477. |
| Subjects | Flowers--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,176 × 1,493 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218060 |
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