Magnolia Altissima - Mark Catesby Phone Case

Finishes

• Gloss for a lustrous statement
• Matte for velvety refinement

Reasons to Love Them

• Dual layer case offers extra protection for the accident prone — durable shatterproof outer layer, tight silicone inner layer for shock absorption
• HP print quality and finish
• Open access to ports/buttons
• Raised rim guards screen/camera
• Snaps on/off with ease
• Sublimated printing means the artwork on your case won't fade, crack or peel
• Certified non-toxic by REACH, RoHS and TÜV Rheinland

Production

• Printed locally in USA, UK, EU & AUS
• Made-to-order in 2-3 days on average

6 Month Warranty

Your new treasure comes with a 6 month warranty, protecting against any defects and faults that can be traced to its production. Meaning if your treasure develops a fault or defect due to its components or construction, you’ll get a replacement sent out free of charge — no surprise extras, no runaround.

Mark Catesby's Magnolia Altissima opens across the frame in a single unshielded bloom, the ivory-cream petals catching every hatched line his copperplate engraving pressed into being. This is Magnolia grandiflora as Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands first fixed it, a colonial Carolina specimen he drew only when freshly gathered, letting no petal bend toward invention.

The pink-striped cone at the flower's center lifts an ochre-yellow anther cluster into view, ringed by yellow-green foliage whose veins still carry the discipline of eighteenth-century botanical illustration. Sir Hans Sloane's patronage sent Catesby into this Carolina wilderness, and what came back was a self-taught engraver's insistence on holding the flower open at the exact moment of its blooming, a compositional choice historians tie to his documented refusal to draw from anything but a living or freshly gathered specimen.

Behind the bloom, dark umber ground swallows the yellow-green leaves into shadow, leaving only the ivory-cream petals and their ochre-yellow center to hold the light. Here that companion is only glimpsed, its rust-red edge pressed against blackish-green background of the eighteenth-century botanical illustration convention Catesby built, plant and animal sharing one hand-colored plate, survives even in this cropped fragment.