African Violets and Gesneriads: Redoute print of Gloxini streptocarpus arrived, 1 by junglebob

junglebob wrote:
I had bought this print on ebay for 1.80....shipping 3.00....it's quite nice...about 20 years old....it's 10.5 by 13 inches or so

Redoute is to botanical art as Michaelangelo is to marble sculpture, as Raphael is to painting, and as Audubon is to American wildlife art. In fact, the leading authorities of his time dubbed Redoute "the Raphael of flowers" due to the sheer multitude of exquisitely astounding roses he depicted so splendidly