Superb lily, echeveria and dendrobium orchid.
Superb lily, echeveria and dendrobium orchid. Lithograph designed and coloured by James Andrews from Robert Tyas' "Flowers from Foreign Lands," London, 1853, Houlston and Stoneman. Little is known about the artist James Andrews (1801~1876) apart from his work. This gifted artist taught flower-painting to young ladies and published a treatise Lessons in Flower Painting in 1835. Blunt calls him "an illustrator of sentimental flower books," but admits that he was "very talented." His signature JA can be found in many botanical gift books for publisher Robert Tyas from The Sentiment of Flowers (1836) to Flowers from Foreign Lands (1853). He went on to illustrate Mrs. Lee's Trees, Plants and Flowers (1854), Edward Henderson's Illustrated Bouquet (1857~1864), and Rev. Honywood Dombrain's Floral Magazine (1862~1866). He also provided the illustrations for the gardening magazine The Florist, Fruitist and Garden Miscellany, which ran from 1848 to 1857.
Size: 3224px × 5157px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: 1853, andrews, botanical, bouquet, dendrobium, echeveria, flower, flowers, foreign, handcoloured, houlston, james, lands, lily, lithograph, london, orchid, robert, stoneman, superb, tyas, victorian
