Curtis Botanical – Plate 8496 – Stříbrný's Saxifrage

Original antique black-and-white botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine — Plate 8496.

Plant: Saxifraga Stribrnyi (Stříbrný's Saxifrage). Native to: Balkans (Bulgaria / Greece).

The stone-breaker — named for its habit of rooting in cliff faces and rock crevices where nothing else grows. Named for a Czech botanist collecting in the Balkans. Saxifrages were prestige plants in Victorian alpine gardens.

Printed in London. Each print is an original page removed from a bound volume of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, the world's oldest continuously published botanical journal (founded 1787). Uncolored plate. Sold individually. Minor age-related toning consistent with 19th-century paper.

This is an original uncolored (plain) plate from leftover publisher stock of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, printed in London. It was issued uncolored and never bound. We bought the holding at the estate of a Chicago rare bookseller. Labels and stock papers from the British dealer Wheldon & Wesley came with it. Library stamps, when present, are noted on the listing.