Plants of Tasmania Nursery

Endemic Flora of Tasmania Prints

In the early 1960s Irish Lord Talbot of Malahide, whose family had owned land in Tasmania since 1824, commissioned well-known Australian-born botanical artist Margaret Stones to produce a large format volume that presented the endemic flora of Tasmania. Stones, who was based in the UK, collaborated with Dr Winifred Curtis, botanist at the University of Tasmania, who both organised to get plants to England in good enough condition to paint and prepared the accompanying text. The resulting six large-format volumes are now collectors' items, with the beautiful but simple paintings the main feature.

Quite remarkably we have come into a collection of prints from these books. These were apparently printers' overruns that were not bound into the original volumes. The prints, which measure roughly 40 x 25 cm, are in fine condition, and frame wonderfully.

Click on the links below to see the prints (needless to say the originals don't have 'Sample' embossed across them). In the list below, the names given are those listed on the prints. Many of these names have now been changed.

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We are selling the prints for $10 each, $45 for 5, $80 for 10, or $7 each for more than 10. A collection of all the prints that are available is $5 per print. Numbers of prints vary, and I'll remove them from the list as they sell out. Email the nursery via the contact page if you would like to order some. The prints are not stored at the nursery, so only a limited few will be available here to be looked at. The most convenient way to get the prints will be to pick them up at the nursery. The prints can be mailed flat to Australia or around the world.