A Hexandrian Lily

A giant lily, at overwhelming scale.

Book: from A Selection of Hexandrian Plants
Artist: Priscilla Susan Bury
Date: 1831–1834
Held by: National Gallery of Art, Washington · via Wikimedia Commons

Format

The full-resolution scan, colour-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore, down to the stipple.

Size

$29.00

The story

Priscilla Bury painted the lilies and amaryllis of her own garden on some of the largest botanical plates ever made — great hand-coloured aquatints so vivid the flowers seem to lean out of the paper. A gentlewoman's private passion that became one of the most magnificent flower books of the age. Printed large, as she intended, it is overwhelming in exactly the way she meant it to be.

See it on your wall

The garden, brought indoors

A Hexandrian Lily printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

About this reproduction

A faithful reproduction of a public-domain plate held by National Gallery of Art, Washington · via Wikimedia Commons — the work is centuries out of copyright (1831–1834).
Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years (inscribed pieces and atelier bouquets are set by hand and printed to order).
Colour-managed to the source scan: the hand-colour is the colourist’s, not ours. We correct nothing and invent nothing.
Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.

Why our plates cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the stipple that makes a petal look soft, the wash of the hand-colourist, the veins of the leaf — on stock made to outlive its owner. A poster reproduces the picture. This reproduces the plate.

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