The Kamchatka Rose

Rosa kamtschatica

A rose from the Russian far east, at the cold end of the genus.

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

Rosa kamtschatica

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 rose from the Kamchatka peninsula — the far eastern edge of Russia, a place of volcanoes and eight-month winters — with the thick crinkled leaves and heavy hips of the rugosa group. Les Roses is often read as a book about a French garden, and it is; it is also a map of how far the plant collectors of 1800 had got. Malmaison held roses from China, from Persia, from the Pacific coast of Siberia. The Empress's rose garden was a map of the reach of empire.

See it on your wall

The garden, brought indoors

The Kamchatka 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.

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