LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Watercolour over pencil, on vellum prepared white

Measurements:

15.28 in. (38.80 cm.) (height) by 10.63 in. (27.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in pencil, lower left: P.J. Redouté.; the mount inscribed in gold: Rosa bifera officinalis. and bears numbering in pencil, lower right: 33

Literature:

P.-J. Redouté and C.-A. Thory, Les Roses, Paris 1817-24, vol. I, pp. 107-108, engraved by Langlois.