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Caricaceae - Carica papaya From: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles. Planches … Botanique classée d’après la méthode naturelle de M. Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu by Pierre Jean François Turpin. Paris & Strasbourg, F.G. Levrault, 1816-1829, volume 5, plate 212. Hand-coloured engraving after Turpin (sheet 120 x 213 mm). € 65
"Pierre Jean François Turpin
(1775-1840) was possibly the greatest botanical genius of all the French
botanical painters of his day … In particular, his drawings of botanical details
have rarely been surpassed. ..." (Blunt). With Pierre-Antoine Poiteau he
collaborated in some of the most important botanical publications of the early
years of the nineteenth century. In the finely illustrated botanical part of the
Dictionnaire … the plates by several engravers were issued uncoloured or
coloured.* Pritzel 10.722; Blunt & Stearn p. 180 ff.; Nissen BBI 2239; Stafleu & Cowan 1293 + 15.384. www.meemelink.com | index | Caricaceae |