Classic Roses

These prints are 30.5 x 46 cm (12″ x 18″) on 153 gm/sm2 high white matt cardstock. Shown here are scans of the prints.
Shown here are scans of the prints.
These prints are LARGE size. See shipping charges for up to 10 prints at Shipping & Returns

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Queen Elizabeth
£12.50
Rosa ‘Queen Elizabeth’ is a pink Grandiflora rose cultivar, bred by Dr. Walter Lammerts in the United States in 1954 (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published c . 1970 by Hugh Evelyn Limited; unknown artist
Size: 30.5 x 46 cm (12″ x 18″)
Printed on high white matt cardstock weighing c. 153 gm/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Confidence
£12.50
Rosa Confidence is a Pink blend Hybrid Tea rose bred by Francis Meilland in France in 1951 (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published c . 1970 by Hugh Evelyn Limited; unknown artist
Size: 30.5 x 46 cm (12″ x 18″)
Printed on high white matt cardstock weighing c. 153 gm/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Salmon Spray
£12.50
Salmon Spray is a Floribunda, Hybrid Polyantha, Hybrid Tea bred by Patrick Grant in Australia in 1923

Published c . 1970 by Hugh Evelyn Limited; unknown artist
Size: 30.5 x 46 cm (12″ x 18″)
Printed on high white matt cardstock weighing c. 153 gm/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Garden Party
£12.50
Rosa ‘Garden Party’ is an ivory hybrid tea rose cultivar created by Herbert C. Swim in the United States 1959 (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published c . 1970 by Hugh Evelyn Limited; unknown artist
Size: 30.5 x 46 cm (12″ x 18″)
Printed on high white matt cardstock weighing c. 153 gm/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Golden Wings
£12.50
‘Golden Wings’, a modern shrub rose of the genus Pimpinellifolia hybrids, bred by the American botanist Roy E. Shepherd in 1956 (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published c . 1970 by Hugh Evelyn Limited; unknown artist
Size: 30.5 x 46 cm (12″ x 18″)
Printed on high white matt cardstock weighing c. 153 gm/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Mermaid
£12.50
Raised by William Paul (UK) 1918 from a cross between Rosa bracteata x unknown (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published c . 1970 by Hugh Evelyn Limited; unknown artist
Size: 30.5 x 46 cm (12″ x 18″)
Printed on high white matt cardstock weighing c. 153 gm/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Souvenir de la Malmaison
£12.50
Rose cultivar with large, very pale pink flowers that open flat created in 1843 by Lyon rose breeder Jean Béluze (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published c . 1970 by Hugh Evelyn Limited; unknown artist
Size: 30.5 x 46 cm (12″ x 18″)
Printed on high white matt cardstock weighing c. 153 gm/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Maréchal Niel
£12.50
‘Maréchal Niel’ is a cultivar of Rosier Grimpant grown in 1864 by rosieriste Français Giraud Pradel (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published c . 1970 by Hugh Evelyn Limited; unknown artist
Size: 30.5 x 46 cm (12″ x 18″)
Printed on high white matt cardstock weighing c. 153 gm/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Tzigane
£12.50
Tzigane is a red blend Hybrid Tea, bred by Francis Meilland in France in 1951 (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published c . 1970 by Hugh Evelyn Limited; unknown artist
Size: 30.5 x 46 cm (12″ x 18″)
Printed on high white matt cardstock weighing c. 153 gm/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Countess Vandal
£12.50
Comptesse Vandal is a pink blend Hybrid Tea. It was bred by Mathias Leenders in the Netherlands in 1930 (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published c . 1970 by Hugh Evelyn Limited; unknown artist
Size: 30.5 x 46 cm (12″ x 18″)
Printed on high white matt cardstock weighing c. 153 gm/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Montezuma
£12.50
Montezuma was bred by Herbert C. Swim in the United States some time before 1954

Published c . 1970 by Hugh Evelyn Limited; unknown artist
Size: 30.5 x 46 cm (12″ x 18″)
Printed on high white matt cardstock weighing c. 153 gm/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Circus
£12.50
Circus roses were first bred in 1956 in the United States by Herbert Swim (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published c . 1970 by Hugh Evelyn Limited; unknown artist
Size: 30.5 x 46 cm (12″ x 18″)
Printed on high white matt cardstock weighing c. 153 gm/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Classic Roses

According to fossil evidence, the rose (rosa, from the Romans) is estimated to be about 35 million years old from fossils found in sedimentary rock deposits in Colorado, USA. Roses have a long history as symbols of love, beauty, war, and politics. The first recorded roses were found in a series of frescos made by the Minoans in Crete around 1500 BC.

Later, in one version of Hesiod’s Theogony (c. 700 BC), Aphrodite, whilst running to her dying lover, Adonis, pricked her foot on a white rose that turned red when her blood fell on it. The Romans used roses as confetti, medicinally, and for perfume. Cleopatra used roses as bait for her lovers whilst Nero used them profligate ostentation.

In the fifteenth century the white rose became the symbol of the House of York [Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III (r. 1461-1485)]; the red rose for Lancaster [Henry IV, V and VI (r. 1399-1461) as two cadet families of the Royal House of Plantagenet battled for the throne of England, culminating in the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487).

In the seventeenth century roses and rose water were used as legal tender and as barter. Napoleon’s wife, Josephine, developed a collection of roses at Chateau de Malmaison in the 1800s which was where Pierre Joseph Redouté worked as a botanical illustrator. His 1824 watercolour collection “Les Rose,” is still considered one of the finest series of botanical illustrations ever produced.

The genus Rosa has some 300 species throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Cultivation to produce variations (variegata in taxonomy terms) began 5,000 years ago in China. Cultivated roses were introduced into Europe from China in the eighteenth century. Most modern roses can be traced back to this ancestry. These roses were repeat bloomers, making them of interest to hybridizers.

These 12 quality prints from the 1960’s are classics, some of which were bred in the 1950’s – many of them in the United States. Some of the older classics were bred in France and the Netherlands. We do not know the artist nor anything of the genesis of these prints since they have no identifying marks, and we can find no history for them.

They are part of the collection of prints discovered some months after Hugh Evelyn’s death over 10 years ago. Together with all the other prints in this collection, they had been in storage for at least 30, perhaps 40, years. Since these prints were found among a large collection of other prints, all of which were published between 1956 and 1972, we must assume that these images are at least 50 years old.

He that sweetest rose will find
Must find love’s prick, and Rosalind.
Touchstone in As You Like It (Act III Scene II)

O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune.
Robbie Burns

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