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Printed as a physical fine-art giclée on Hahnemühle German Etching 310gsm using archival pigment inks. The tactile surface is chosen to hold fine linework and muted colour.
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A blue Egyptian water lily staged against the Nile in Thornton’s theatrical Temple of Flora.
Why we chose it
What drew us in was the discipline of the composition: the plant is carefully observed, but the page still has atmosphere. We chose it for a room that wants colour with structure—over a desk, beside a reading chair, or as part of a collected wall.
About the work
Published in 1804 for Robert John Thornton’s The Temple of Flora, this aquatint places a blue Egyptian water lily against the Nile at Aboukir Bay, with palms and a mosque in the middle distance. Botanical specimen and landscape are treated with equal theatricality, lifting the plant out of the herbarium and into an imagined stage. Engraved by Joseph Constantine Stadler after Peter Charles Henderson and published by Robert John Thornton; the original is held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The work is made available as public domain through The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access programme. This print is produced as part of the Museum of Imagined Worlds art project. Made for close looking, it works equally well as a singular statement or the anchor of a collected wall. This is an original Museum of Imagined Worlds plate, created for our imagined archive of images that sit between record and invention.
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