Botanical Engraving 1911 - Yellow Peony by A. Millot - Flower, Lithograph

✨ Authentic engraving from 1911 (115 years ago!). This is not a modern reproduction, but a genuine antique engraving. ✨ Subject: Double yellow peony. 🌿 Artist: Adolphe Millot. 🌿 Size: 18 X 25 cm. 🌿 Edition: 1911. 🌿 Thick, elegant cream-white vintage paper. 🌿 Condition: Very good, with slight signs of age. See also the photos. The artist of the work is Adolphe Millot (1857-1921), a famous French illustrator in the fields of natural history. This engraving belongs to a series of botanical plates from the early 20th century, published in the Revue Horticole in 1911, a prestigious French journal dedicated to botany and garden art. It finely illustrates the artistic and scientific expertise of the time, blending naturalistic precision with decorative elegance. Authentic and original, it combines beauty and pedagogy, making each piece a precious fragment of natural history and a true time capsule. A magnificent botanical illustration featuring a hybrid peony with golden yellow petals tinged with orange-red. The composition shows two flowers at different stages of blooming with their characteristic green foliage, revealing the beauty and complexity of this exceptional horticultural variety. 🌸 Secure shipping: Rigid protection to ensure the condition upon arrival. 🌸 Bulk purchase: Possible discounts for the purchase of multiple plates. Contact me to optimise shipping costs. 🌸 More choices in my shop - Browse my other lithographs and prints for more botany and zoology. Reference: 102-1-20. Texts inscribed on the engraving: Hybrid Delaunay Peony in memory of Professor Maxime Cornu. --- Decoration, vintage, flower, garden, botany, gold, spring, horticultural, herbaceous, perennial. This plate showcases the typical scientific naturalist style of horticultural illustrations from the early 20th century, in the tradition of botanical plates.