The Cabbage Rose

Rosa centifolia

The most beloved rose plate ever engraved.

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

Rosa centifolia

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

Redouté was called "the Raphael of flowers," and this is his most famous bloom — the hundred-petalled cabbage rose, rendered in the stipple engraving he perfected, every petal soft as breath. Painted from the roses of the Empress Joséphine's garden at Malmaison. No flower plate is more loved, or more copied. It is also June's flower, which is why it hangs at the centre of this house: the rose everyone means when they say the word.

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The garden, brought indoors

The Cabbage Rose 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 June

This is June’s flower — the rose

Rosa centifolia

The hundred-petalled rose — and the most beloved flower plate ever engraved. If you’re buying it for someone born in June, we can set their name and the date in a wreath cartouche beneath the bloom, in the manner of Furber’s month cartouches.

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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