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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 ...
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.
Florilegium Societies aim to compile a record of all the living plants and flowers in a particular garden or place. Such records can be made in a variety of art media used for botanical art e.g. watercolour, pencil, pen and ink. The History of the Florilegium: Florilegium is a latin word and the plural is Florilegia.
The Florilegium is presented in two luxurious volumes, hand-bound in leather and marbled paper with tooling in gold leaf. The edition is limited to 150 numbered sets, the first of which is assigned to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales who has written the Preface and kindly agreed to sign each copy. A list of subscribers to the Transylvania ...
25 de abr. de 2008 · At £10,950, the Highgrove Florilegium is not exactly a snip, but all royalties go to The Prince's Charities Foundation, and most copies will end up in institutions where many people will be able ...
The Highgrove Florilegium Prints. In a truly spectacular undertaking, 72 of the world’s leading botanical artists were invited to paint the plants and flowers of King Charles’s celebrated garden at Highgrove in Gloucestershire. The resulting Highgrove Florilegium – produced by Addison Publications – is an exceptional example of the ...
