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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 310734, member: 56&quot;]Merry Christmas!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll leave these up most of a week, make a decision next Wednesday.</p><p><br /></p><p>Someone gets the Correa, someone else gets the Mimosa (making the grand assumption there will be at least two interested).</p><p><br /></p><p>By attribution, these prints are from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, 1849 (started in 1787 and still in publishing). They are each dated 1815, so presumably later restrikes from the plates. Both are hand-colored. Both prints show faint ink transfer from previously adjacent text.</p><p><br /></p><p>All the sheets are approximately 9 ¼” by 5 ½”.</p><p><br /></p><p>Each plate mark measures about 7 7/8” by 4 7/8”</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Correa Speciosa (I think it has very Christmassy colors, which is why I’m offering it.)</p><p>This was first described in 1811 when it was identified as a separate species. It is now considered a subspecies of Correa Reflexa, and is an Australian shrub. It comes with a page of text, printed one side only. If I were going to keep this, I would mat the text and engraving to show side by side in a single frame.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]102734[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]102735[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]102736[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]102737[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Also offered is an engraving of Mimosa Sensitiva from the same source. The leaves are not what I associate with Mimosa, but I’m no botanist. It’s called the Sensitive Plant because, when you touch the leaves, they fold up. This also comes with a separate sheet of text (this one printed both sides).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]102738[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]102739[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]102740[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]102741[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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