The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing. To which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art.
A London drawing manual and colouring book issued by Robert Sayer about 1760, its sixty plates arranged month by month through the flowering year for amateur gentlemen and ladies learning to draw and paint flowers. The engravings give single specimens on bare paper, outlines left open for hand-colouring, with month and plate number in script above and petals modelled in fine hatching.
