English publisher, map and printseller (1725-1794)

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The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing. To which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art.

A man leaning on a crutch points to two pineapples and three bottles on a table beside him, a portrait of the Earl of Bute on the wall beyond. Engraving by J. Collett, 1769, after his design.

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Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794

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A man leaning on a crutch points to two pineapples and three bottles on a table beside him, a portrait of the Earl of Bute on the wall beyond. Engraving by J. Collett, 1769, after his design.