Magnoliaceae - Magnolia umbrella
- Magnolia tripetala
From: La flore et la pomone françaises, ou histoire et figures en
couleur, des fleurs et des fruits de France ou naturalisés sur le sol français
by Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire.
Paris, the author, 1832, volume 5, plate
449. Unsigned stipple-engraving in colour by Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire
finished by hand (uncut and unbound sheet 175 x 267). Text enclosed.€ 65
Very rare work, which was published in parts from 1828-1833 in 6 volumes by the
French botanist and artist Jaume Saint-Hilaire (1772-1845). It was planned to
issue 800 plates but the regular publication was terminated with plate 544.
Among those who worked under van Spaëndonck or Redouté, or who based their
style on the pure water-colour technique which Redouté learned from his master,
may be mentioned Turpin, Poiteau, Bessa, Mme Vincent (b. 1786),
Jaume-Saint-Hilaire, Chazal and Prêtre. Most of these artists were the equals of
Redouté in technical skill, and given his opportunities might have won the same
renown. … Jaume-Saint-Hilaire was no less distinguished as a botanist, and his
introduction into France of Polygonum tinctorum, which yields a valuable
blue dye, was of considerable importance (Blunt).
* Pritzel 4404; Dunthorne 160; Blunt pp. 180, 182; Nissen BBI 988; Great flower books p. 61;
Stafleu & Cowan 3311; Johnston 943.
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Magnoliaceae - Magnolia x lennei From: Flora.
Afbeeldingen en beschrijvingen van boomen, heesters, éénjarige planten, enz.,
voorkomende in de Nederlandsche tuinen by Heinrich Witte. Groningen, J.B.
Wolters, (1868), plate 15. Chromolithograph by G. Severeyns after Abraham
Jacobus Wendel (sheet 224 x 302 mm). Text enclosed.€ 140
Heinrich Witte, a Dutch gardener, was assistant curator and head-curator at the Leiden botanical
garden from 1855-1898. The decorative colour-plates depict the most attractive
Dutch garden plants, shrubs and trees of its time, finely lithographed by G.
Severeyns of Brussels after paintings by Abraham Jacobus Wendel. * Pritzel
10.366; Nissen BBI 2174; Stafleu & Cowan 18.090; Landwehr 213.
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