Plantes des environs de Paris

Related Titles

Series: Dumbarton Oaks Digitization Project, Garden and Landscape Studies

By

Turpin, P. J. F. (Pierre Jean François), 1775-1840

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

[between 1805 and 1808?]

Notes

Unsigned handwritten manuscript with 100 watercolor paintings, within a pen-drawn frame, depicting the flora of the environs of Paris, a single plant image per plate. Many watercolors include botanical descriptions in Latin and French (text outside of pen-drawn frame). Some watercolors have also small pencil sketches of plant details. Each plate is accompanied by a facing leaf, also with a pen-drawn frame, with text in French and Latin inside the frame.

Handwritten title page and handwritten index of the plants portrayed in the volume ([1] leaf at end).

Attribution to Turpin from bookseller information.

Captions in Latin and French.

Subjects

19th century , Botanical illustration , Botany , France , History , Paris , Pictorial works , Plants , Watercolor painting , Watercolor painting, French

Call Number

QK313 .T87 1805z

Language

French

Identifiers

OCLC: 864182675