The Rose
The Frankfurt Rose
Rosa turbinata
The swollen, turban-shaped hip that gives the rose its name.
- Book
- Rosier de Francfort, from Les Roses
- Artist
- Pierre-Joseph Redouté
- Date
- 1817–1824
- Held by
- Bibliothèque nationale de France · via Wikimedia Commons
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
Named for the shape of its hip — turbinata, turban-like — which swells below the flower into a broad top and is as distinctive as the bloom. Redouté draws the hip as carefully as the petals, because that is where the identification lives, and a rose plate that only shows you a pretty flower is a decoration rather than a record. The house sells these as art; they were made as evidence. The flower is the advertisement. The hip is the proof.
See it on your wall
The garden, brought indoors
The Frankfurt 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.
