Orange Lily

By Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Find your very own rare stipple engraving from Pierre-Joseph Redouté’s famous botanical series “Les Liliacées” – the Orange Lily (Lilium Bulbiferum). It is a fantastic example of a perfect print from the Enlightenment era which presents the unique, spotted orange petals and graceful, slender lanceolate leaves in exact colors and stunning hand finishing touches.

The unique stipple engraving technique used by Pierre-Joseph Redouté gives the ability to produce such amazing gradation of the tone and color that makes it possible to depict the wonderful bright orange petals with dark spots, stamens structure and deep green colored leaves of lanceolate shape. The print corresponds fully with the scientific tradition of the era which means that in addition to the beautiful illustration of the lily it also contains a lovely and extremely detailed study of the bulb and seed pod on the bottom part of the stem in monochrome tones.