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Anacardiaceae - Mangifera indica 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 262. Hand-coloured engraving after Turpin (sheet 120 x 213 mm). € 95
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 & Stearn). 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 · Anacardiaceae |