Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, for the Donald Gray Memorial Collection
Catalogue
- Year
- 1799
- Medium
- mezzotint
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Artist
- Robert John Thornton
Artist
Robert John Thornton (1768–1837) was an English physician and botanical writer, noted for A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus Von Linnæus (1797–1807) and "The British Flora" of 1812.
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Eruption of Mount Aetna in 1669
1804 · aquatint with engraving
The Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature: A Group of Auriculas
1803 · aquatint, stipple, and etching with watercolor added by hand
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1769
1803 · aquatint with engraving
The Blue Passion-flower
1799 · aquatint, stipple, line engraving, etching and roulette
Large Flowering Sensitive Plant, Plate 16
1799 · Etching with printed and hand-applied color, aquatint, stipple, and engraving
The Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature: The Pontic Rhododendron
1799 · aquatint, stipple and line engraving
Record
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- Robert John Thornton
- Year
- 1799
- Medium
- mezzotint
- Watts ID
- WW-1799-336696
Source
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Source
- cleveland
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified