Poinsettia pulcherrima / Holden delt. ; Smith sc. – Historic Print
(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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Poinsettia pulcherrima / Holden delt. ; Smith sc.
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Few flowers carry an American diplomat's name as well as this one. The poinsettia, shown here as *Poinsettia pulcherrima*, takes its genus name from Joel Roberts Poinsett, who sent plants of the Mexican shrub home to South Carolina while serving as the first U.S. minister to Mexico. This hand-colored etching appeared in London in 1838 as a plate in *Paxton's Magazine of Botany*, a periodical that introduced British gardeners to exotic plants. Its showy red bracts are modified leaves rather than petals, a detail worth noticing when comparing the plate with the living plant.
| Created / published | London : Published by W.S. Orr & Co., 1838. |
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| Medium | 1 print : etching, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1830-1840.Botanical illustrations 1830-1840.Etchings Hand-colored 1830-1840. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Paxton's magazine of botany & register of flowering plants / London : W.S. Orr & Co., 1838, v. 4, opp. p. 97. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. |
| Subjects | Flowers--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,453 × 1,150 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219119 |
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