The Frampton Flora

by Richard Mabey

"The Frampton Flora" documents a beautiful collection of Victorian botanical paintings discovered in the attic of Frampton Court in Gloucestershire over a century after they were created. First... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671620258
• ISBN13: 9780671620257
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Beautifully produced compendium of Brit-flora watercolors..

This atmospheric book preserves a classically British place and time -- country Great House, 19th century. Ladies of sensitivity and breeding painted watercolors (oils were for "serious" male artists). These 2 generations worth of works are reproduced finely enough for framing the larger examples. Backgrounds are age-yellowed; the drafting, composition, and coloration are impressive for unknown amateurs (again, ladies were considered charming dabblers). The cover (printed same as the shiny DJ, with a bit of an incongruous linen-texture finish that will nevertheless wear well) is done in fancy marbled paper/leather-tipping simulation -- a great "old time" look for the country decorated sunroom table, etc. Nice peek into a bygone era!