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409.  [Thornton, Robert J.].  “Aesculapius, Flora, Ceres and Cupid honouring the Bust of Linnaeus.”  (London, April 1, 1806).  Stipple engraving, 46 x 34.5cm, plus margins.  From a painting by John Russell & John Opie; one of the frontispieces in Thornton’s The Temple of Flora (London, 1799-1806).  Partly printed in color, partly hand-colored.  Condition:  encapsulated; top margin edge rough; lower right margin corner reattached; good.

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