The Cumberland Rose

Rosa centifolia anglica rubra

A crimson centifolia, drawn at the height of Redouté’s stipple.

Book: Rosier de Cumberland, from Les Roses
Artist: Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Date: 1817–1824
Held by: Bibliothèque nationale de France · via Wikimedia Commons

Rosa centifolia anglica rubra

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

A deep crimson form of the hundred-petalled rose, named for the English duke. Redouté's method here is stipple engraving printed in several colours at once from a single plate — the colours applied to the plate by hand for each impression, à la poupée — then finished by hand in watercolour. Each print in the original edition is therefore both a print and a painting. That is why the book cost what a house cost. It was never a book. It was a subscription to a workshop.

See it on your wall

The garden, brought indoors

The Cumberland 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 Bibliothèque nationale de France · via 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