"Hand-coloured and colour-printed aquatint and stipple engraving by Hopwood. Sheet size: 21 3/4 x 17 1/8 inches.

The most strikingly beautiful flower plates ever to be printed in England.

"The Quadrangular Passion Flower [Passiflora quadrangularis L.] is so widely cultivated in South America that its precise country of origin cannot now be determined. It is indeed handsome and its colours so vivid that, far from the picture being sombre like that of the Blue Passion Flower, and although composed like that picture with the plant climbing up a pillar, it is much brighter... [with]... spectacular flowers... The Quadrangular Passion Flower has, however, virtues beyond the striking appearance of its flowers. Its fruit... is the well-known Granadilla, universally consumed as a delicacy in the warm countries where the plant will grow freely." (Ronald King. The Temple of Flora by Robert Thornton. 1981, p.84).''

from Donald Heald Books