The Moss Rose

Rosa muscosa alba

A white rose furred with green, in perfect stipple.

Book: Rosa Muscosa Alba, from Les Roses
Artist: Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Date: 1817–1824
Held by: Wikimedia Commons

Rosa muscosa alba

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

The moss rose, its buds mossed with fine green, a curiosity beloved of collectors. Redouté's stipple gives it a velvet you can almost touch — the technique that made him painter to two empresses and the most celebrated flower artist who ever lived. Look closely at the sepals: that furred texture is thousands of individual dots, laid by hand.

See it on your wall

The garden, brought indoors

The Moss Rose 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 Wikimedia Commons — the work is centuries out of copyright (1817–1824).
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.

From the same hand