A Select Collection of the most beautiful Flowers, Drawn after Nature by A. Heckell; disposed in their proper Order in Baskets: Intended either for Ornament or the Improvement of Ladies in Drawing and Needlework

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Artist/Maker	Heckel (Designer) Unknown (Printmaker) Carington Bowles (Publisher) Samuel Carver (Publisher)
Place of origin	London (Published)

Augustin Heckel (after), 1 of 6 plates, including title plate, from the suite entitled, 'A Select Collection of the most beautiful Flowers, Drawn after Nature by A. Heckell; disposed in their proper Order in Baskets: Intended either for Ornament or the Improvement of Ladies in Drawing and Needlework', probably a reissue, London, c. 1795.

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Category	Ornament Prints
Object type	Print
Title	A Select Collection of the most beautiful Flowers, Drawn after Nature by A. Heckell; disposed in their proper Order in Baskets: Intended either for Ornament or the Improvement of Ladies in Drawing and Needlework (Suite title)
Brief description	Augustin Heckel (after), 1 of 6 plates, including title plate, from the suite entitled, 'A Select Collection of the most beautiful Flowers, Drawn after Nature by A. Heckell; disposed in their proper Order in Baskets: Intended either for Ornament or the Improvement of Ladies in Drawing and Needlework', probably a reissue, London, c. 1795.
Dimensions	Height: 34.9cm Width: 24.7cm
Bibliographic reference	Cloake, John, Prospects about Richmond: Mid-eighteenth Century Drawings and Prints by Augustin Heckel: Exhibition at the Museum of Richmond, 12 Octobre 1993-19 February 1994, Richmond: Museum of Richmond, 1993, 46.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.38E-1890

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O928634/a-select-collection-of-the-print-heckel/

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