Flora's Beauteous Train
All Resolutions
And thou, divine Linnaeus! trac'd my reign,
O'er trees, and plants, and Flora's beauteous train,
Prov'd them obedient to my soft controul,
And gaily breathe the aromatic soul.
Charlotte Lennox.
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Stipple engraving (finished by hand) showing Cupid walking on a path through luxuriant vegetation and bending his bow, aiming his arrow at a group of long-stalked flowers growing in the foreground.
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