Pink and crimson everblooming roses, Rosa semperflorens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from an illustration drawn from nature by Stark from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1790-1830. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc.

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