Botanical copper plate hand-colored 1788

Botanical copper plate hand-colored, 1788 - with passe-partout and framed; one book sheet: "Moosrose - Rosa centifolia muscosa" - from the book "The Botanical Magazine, Lambeth Marsh; London 1788; by William Curtis; original hand-colored copper engraving; Some foxing; William Curtis (1746-1799) was a famous English botanist, entomologist, and trained pharmacist from Alton Hampshire; 1779 he founded his own London Botanic Garden in Lambeth, 1787 he published "The Botanical Magazine", a work which also contained hand-colored plates by James Sowerby and Sydenham Edwards; traces of use according to age; measurement frame frame: 26,4 x 35.8 cm