Flower Print Egyptian Water Lilly Temple of Flora Vintage Crisp linework and soft tonal

Crisp linework and soft tonal gradients are rendered with the clarity this fine art print deserves

This canvas art print is produced in Berlin with museum-grade archival inks on 100% cotton canvas

where scientific accuracy and artistic ambition met on the same page

Printed on hand-stretched cotton canvas

as if the viewer is looking directly into a source of diffused

Flower Print Egyptian Water Lilly Temple of Flora Vintage Crisp linework and soft tonalThe Blue Egyptian Water Lily from Robert John Thorntons 1807 Temple of Flora is among the most dramatic plates in botanical publishing history. Thornton rejected the plain ground conventions of his contemporaries and set his flowers in atmospheric landscape environments: the water lily rises from a moonlit pool, its intense cobalt blue petals luminous against dark water and a twilight sky. The composition is theatrical without losing botanical