TWO! 1859 BRADBURY & MOORE NATURE-PRINTED FERNS Plates CVIII, CVI Hymenophyllum

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Artist:Henry Bradbury
Signed By:Henry Bradbury
Image Orientation:Portrait
Size:Octavo
Signed:Yes
Title:Plates LXVI, LXXV Aspleneum Trichomanes
Period:Victorian (1830-1900)
Material:Paper
Region of Origin:Europe
Original/Licensed Reprint:Original
Subject:Biology,Botanical,Still Life,Botany,Ferns,Pterodomania,Nature Printed
Type:Hand-Colored Original Engraving Print
Year of Production:1859
Item Height:9″
Style:Natural History
Theme:History,Natural History,Nature,Science & Medicine,Botany,Ferns,Pterodomania
Features:1st Edition
Production Technique:Hand-Colored Copperplate Engraving
Country/Region of Manufacture:United Kingdom
Unit Quantity:Two Different Fern Plates in One Listing
Handmade:Yes
Item Width:6″
Time Period Produced:1850-1899

Two Rare 1859 Hand-Colored Copperplate Intaglio Prints from: THENATURE PRINTEDBRITISH FERNS By Thos. Moore. NATURE PRINTEDBYHENRY BRADBURY 1: Plate CVIII HYMENOPHYLLUM TUNBRIDGENSE 2: Plate CVI WOODSONIA ALPINA From the famed volumes of Henry Bradbury’s printmaking tour-de-force in ’Nature Printing’ comes this pair of beautiful copperplate prints showing every detail of the vasculature structure of fern fronds, hand-colored in the plate.These plates just seem to go together, two beautiful plates from this amazing series. The nature-printing process reveals just how stunningly beautiful these ferns are in all their intricate glory.These plates are wonderful, intricate images, & are fascinating as wall art, & work well grouped in multiples.They also document the plant exceptionally & recall a time in England known as ’Pteridomania’ or fern fever, which was a Victorian craze for ferns. Decorative arts of that period presented the fern motif in pottery, glass, metal, textiles, wood, printed paper, and sculpture, with ferns ”appearing on everything from christening presents to gravestones and memorials”Ferns are back, we’re seeing the the classic imagery of the era reappearing in new wall-art, linens, even on mugs & dinnerware. These prints are the real deal, antique originals. The Artist:Henry Riley Bradbury (1829 – 1860) was an English writer on printing. Bradbury is known for his book The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland with author Thomas Moore and editor John Lindley published in 1855 which used the innovative technique of nature printing.He was the oldest son of five children of a printer, William Bradbury (1799–1869). From 1856 he took an interest in the security aspects of banknote printing, and set up the business Bradbury & Wilkinson. Bradbury had studied Auer’s discovery in Vienna, who had patented the process in 1852.Bradbury patented his own version in London. After being accused of plagiarism by Auer, Bradbury took his own life by drinking acid. The Volumes:The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland was a book published in 1855 that featured 51 plates of nature printing by Henry Bradbury. The book was released at a time of so-called ”pteridomania” in Britain.[1] Along with William Grosart Johnstone and Alexander Croall’s Nature-Printed British Sea-Weeds (London, 1859–1860), the book featured Bradbury’s innovative nature printing process. The publisher of the work was Bradbury and Evans. There were large folio versions for a different edition, which are now nearly impossible to find & command a high price. These plates come from the octavo edition. The Plates & Technique:These intricately detailed prints were created using the “nature-printed” process developed by the Austrian Alois Auer and perfected by Henry Bradbury. In this unique process a plant is pressed into a plate of soft lead, leaving an impression from which an electrotype is made.The resultant prints are incredibly life-like and true to nature, capturing the fine detail of each fern without the interpretation of an engraver or artist. Ferns, a plant highly suited to the process, & the details of the fronds and stem were hand-colored by hand during the inking of the copper plate. The resulting image was in two colors and provided a highly detailed and realistic depiction of the species. Condition:Appears to be in very good condition for a 168-year-old engravings. The hand-coloring appears to remain sharp & brilliant as the day it was printed. Little age-toning for a print this old. Clean prints as these go. Please peruse the detailed photos.These prints are very old & may have minor imperfections expected with age, such as some typical age-toning of the paper, oxidation of the old original watercolors, spots, text-offsetting, artifacts from having been bound into a book, etc. Please examine the photos & details carefully.Text Page(s): This one comes without original text page. I’ve added a scan of a sample cover page from one of the volumes to the listing photos for reference, it’s not part of the listing. About these gorgeous plants:Hymenophyllum tunbrigense, the Tunbridge filmy fern or Tunbridge filmy-fern, is a small, fragile perennial leptosporangiate fern which forms large dense colonies of overlapping leaves from creeping rhizomes. The common name derives from the leaves which are very thin, only a single cell thick, and translucent, giving the appearance of a wet film. Woodsia alpina, commonly known as alpine woodsia, is a fern found in northern latitudes in North America and Eurasia. Also known as northern woodsia or alpine cliff fern, it is typically found in crevices, scree slopes and cliffs containing slate and calcareous rocks, especially limestone.Size: 9″ x 6″ inches approximately.Shipping: Multiple prints combine into one USPS Flat-Rate envelope. If you’d like to combine & need more time to choose, please send a message & we’ll do our best to oblige. If you’re assessed multiple shipping for one combined package, we’ll endeavor to refund any overage asap. Thanks for Visiting!

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