Greek vase with hindsia violacea, oncidium pelicanum orchid, begonia and leadwort. Lithograph designed and coloured by James Andrews from Robert Tyas' "Flowers from Foreign Lands," London, 1853, Houlston and Stoneman. Little is known about the artist James Andrews (1801~1876) apart from his work. This gifted artist taught flower-painting to young ladies and published a treatise Lessons in Flower Painting in 1835. Blunt calls him "an illustrator of sentimental flower books," but admits that he wa
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