The Twelve Months
February
The first sweetness — and February’s violet.
- Book
- The Twelve Months of Flowers
- Plate
- Pl. 2
- Artist
- Henry Fletcher, after Pieter Casteels III, pub. Robert Furber
- Date
- 1730
- Held by
- 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
See it on your wall
The garden, brought indoors
February printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
The birth flower of February
This is February’s flower — the violet
Viola odorata
Modest, low to the ground, and the first sweetness of the year. If you’re buying it for someone born in February, we can set their name and the date in a wreath cartouche beneath the bloom, in the manner of Furber’s month cartouches.
Inscribe it as a birth flower →About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain plate held by Wikimedia Commons — the work is centuries out of copyright (1730).
- 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.
Complete the set
The Twelve Months of Flowers
All twelve of Furber’s monthly bouquets — your month as the birth-flower gift, or the whole year on the wall.
View the set →
