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Florilegium Watercolours. Leading botanical artists painted specimens of plants and trees growing in the Highgrove garden. The 124 selected paintings are now published in a limited edition with The Prince's Foundation. Each two-volume set is signed and handbound in leather and marbled paper with tooling in gold leaf.
The Highgrove Florilegium is a limited-edition of 175 numbered sets – set number 1/175 is held by His Majesty, who wrote the Preface and has signed each numbered set. Royalties are donated to The Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation. Each volume measures 26 by 18 by 2½ inches.
26 de abr. de 2008 · The first volume was published this week after six years work - in his 60th birthday year. The Highgrove Florilegium will comprise two volumes of 120 watercolours which record the plants in the gardens at Highgrove, which is the family home near Tetbury in Gloucestershire of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.
Next. “Watercolors from the Highgrove Florilegium,” a display of botanical paintings of the flowers, trees, fruits, and vegetables grown in the Gloucestershire garden of HRH the Prince of Wales, will be on view Nov. 8 through Jan. 4, 2009, in the Botanical Center. The watercolors are the work of international artists who were invited by the ...
20 de ene. de 2022 · Known as the Highgrove Florilegium, it marks the very first Royal British florilegium and is also one of the most expensive books ever produced! Only 175 copies were printed, so it’s a collector’s item for sure. Here is an interesting little video about the making of the Highgrove Florilegium in case you would like to know more.
The watercolours were painted for the book The Highgrove Florilegium, a two-volume set of botanical prints depicting the plants, vegetables, fruit and trees grown in the garden at Highgrove. This publication is a culmination of seven years of work by 72 of the leading botanical artists and is accompanied by text compiled by botanists at the Natural History Museum and was published in 2008 and ...
The Highgrove Florilegium was limited to 175 numbered sets, only two of which are located in public institutions in the United States. MSU Libraries has set #161, acquired in May 2017, purchased with contributions from the Dr. E. James and Geri Potchen History of Horticulture Endowment Fund and the Kim A. Wilcox and Diane Del Buono Endowment for Library Agricultural Collections.
