One large, loosely double rose in deep pink and crimson opens at the top of a stem, its golden stamens showing at the center. At upper right a cluster of buds with long, narrow sepals includes one just splitting open, and broad, toothed leaves spread below. Engraved lettering reads Rosa Turbinata and Rosier de Francfort, with the painter's, printer's and engraver's credits beneath; an inventory number is written at lower right. Pierre-Joseph Redouté painted the Frankfurt rose for the first volume of Les Roses (1817), with text by Claude-Antoine Thory, and Bessin engraved it.

Thory describes a shrub five to six feet tall with sweetly scented flowers, always double but never full, close to the cabbage rose in size but darker. Its calyx tube is wide above, narrow below and pinched in the middle, like a spinning top, the shape its Latin name turbinata describes. Thory adds that it grows wild in northern Europe: it had been found in Saxony, in hedges near Würzburg, and even in bundles of wild roses sent to the Paris flower market. Its flowers very often open imperfectly.

It is in the Médiathèque intercommunale Pau-Pyrénées in Pau.