Magnificent Books, Manuscripts and Drawings from the Collection of Frederick 2nd Lord Hesketh

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Lot 71
  • 71

Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pierre-Joseph Redouté
  • Rosa indica fragrans

  • Watercolour over pencil, on vellum prepared white, with touches of bodycolour;
    signed in pencil, lower left: P.J. Redouté.;
    the mount inscribed in gold: Rosa Indica Fragrans. and bears later numbering in pencil: 29

Literature

P.-J. Redouté and C.-A. Thory, Les Roses, Paris 1817-24, vol. I, pp. 61-62, engraved by Langlois

Condition

Laid down on the mount. Some slight surface dirt at the corners, and a tiny dark spot stain near the lower right corner, but otherwise the condition is excellent.
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Catalogue Note

Now known as 'Hume's Blush', this rose was introduced to Europe from Calcutta in 1809 by Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet (1751-1838).  Messrs. Lee & Kennedy, nurserymen of Hammersmith, broke the continental blockade to supply plants such as this for the Empress Joséphine's garden at Malmaison.

Sir Abraham and his wife Amelia Egerton bred roses at the family estate at Wormley in Hertfordshire.  He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1775 on account of his distinction in natural history and mineralogy, was a founding member of the Geological Society and Director of the British Institution.  His descendents include the important gardening family the Dorrien-Smiths, who created the extraordinary sub-tropical gardens at Tresco, on the Isles of Scilly.