The Temple of Flora
The Night-Blowing Cereus
Selenicereus grandiflorus
A flower that blooms once, by moonlight.
- Book
- The Night-Blowing Cereus, from The Temple of Flora
- Artist
- Robert John Thornton
- Date
- 1799–1807
- Held by
- 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
See it on your wall
The garden, brought indoors
The Night-Blowing Cereus 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 (1799–1807).
- 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.
Complete the set
The Temple of Flora
Thornton’s theatrical flowers, against their Romantic skies — the four great plates.
View the set →
