Chrysobalanaceae - Chrysobalanus icaco
Paris & Strasbourg, F.G. Levrault, 1816-1829, volume 5, plate 236.
Hand-coloured engraving after Turpin (sheet 120 x 213 mm).€ 80
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 p. 180 ff.; Nissen BBI 2239; Stafleu & Cowan 1293 & 15.384.
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