Passion Flower, 1799, Gouache on vellum, sheet: 10 3/8 x 7 15/16 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Sydenham Teak Edwards (British

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Passion Flower, 1799, Gouache on vellum, sheet: 10 3/8 x 7 15/16 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Sydenham Teak Edwards (British, Usk, Wales 1768–1819 London), The Welsh-born Edwards came to London in 1788 at the invitation of the artist-publisher Edward Curtis, to design botanical prints for his 'The Botanical Magazine: or, Flower Garden Displayed.' The use of gouache on vellum here recalls a technique favored by the German botanical draftsman Georg Dionysius Ehret, whose British work from 1736 helped established the genre's popularity

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