id:			127083
accession number:	1949.415
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.415
updated:		2023-03-08 14:59:12.522000

The Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature:  A Group of Auriculas, 1803. Robert John Thornton (British, 1768–1837). Aquatint, stipple, and etching with watercolor added by hand; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1949.415

title:				The Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature:  A Group of Auriculas
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creation date:			1803
creation date earliest:		1803
creation date latest:		1803
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creditline:			Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
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culture:	England, late 18th-early 19th Century
technique:	aquatint, stipple, and etching with watercolor added by hand
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Aquatint
type:		Print
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* Robert John Thornton (British, 1768–1837)  - artist

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Perennial Garden: 18th and 19th Century Botanical Prints
	opening date:   1983-05-03T04:00:00
	<i>The Perennial Garden: 18th and 19th Century Botanical Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 3-July 31, 1983).

	title:		The Flowering of the Botanical Print
	opening date:   2016-03-26T00:00:00
	<i>The Flowering of the Botanical Print</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 26-July 3, 2016).

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The greatest English botanical publication of the early 19th century was Dr. Robert John Thornton’s <em>Temple of Flora. </em>Although Thornton studied medicine, his passion was botany and he soon embarked upon a major publishing venture that brought him both fame and financial ruin. The work, <em>New Illustrations of the Sexual System of Linnaeus,</em> was the most sumptuous botanical publication ever produced. The third section, the famous <em>Temple of Flora,</em> has 28 flower portraits set not against a plain conventional background but in the full richness of their natural setting. Unfortunately the day of the great <em>florilegia</em> had passed and Thornton died in poverty in 1837.
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print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.415/1949.415_print.jpg
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