The Florilegium
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The Rose

The Double Moss Rose

Rosa centifolia muscosa

The moss rose in full — the bloom crowded, the bud furred green.

Book
Rosier mousseux à fleurs doubles, from Les Roses
Artist
Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Date
1817–1824
Held by
Bibliothèque nationale de France · via Wikimedia Commons
Rosa centifolia muscosa

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 double moss rose, pink and crowded, with the characteristic furred bud beside it — Redouté nearly always draws a rose with a bud, because the bud is where a rose is identified. The "moss" is glandular growth that releases a resinous, balsam scent when rubbed; a moss rose is a flower you are meant to touch, which is unusual and slightly scandalous for a formal garden plant. A rose bred to be handled.

See it on your wall

The garden, brought indoors

The Double Moss Rose printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

The Double Moss Rose framed on the wall
The Double Moss Rose framed on the wall
The Double Moss Rose framed on the wall
The Double Moss Rose framed on the wall

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.