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Artist
- Name:
- Reinagle, Philip
- Dates:
- 1749-1833
- Country:
- UK
Illustration
- Subject:
- Plants
- Technique:
- Metal engraving
- Engraver:
- Dunkarton, Robert
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Missouri Botanical Garden Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus: and the temple of Flora, or garden of nature
- Author(s):
- Thornton, Robert John
- Published:
- London, 1807
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
View of blooming Selenicereus grandiflorus (also known as night-blooming cereus, or queen of the night) on a river bank by a moonlit night. A towered building which stands in the background bears a clock showing a few minutes past midnight.
Keywords: 1800s, 19th century, Cactaceae, color, flower, reference book
