Cedratier Ordinaire.

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• ARTIST: Pierre Antoine Poiteau

• PUBLISHER: Imprimerie De Mme Herissant Le Doux, Imprimeur Ordinaire Du Roi, Et Des Musees Royaux, Rue Sainte-Anne, No.20. Paris.

• MEDIUM: Stipple engraving, printed in color and finished by hand,

  DATE: 1818

• EDITION SIZE: Paper size 13 x 9 3/4" (33 x 24.8 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: Tab. 97. Poiteau pinxt. Gabriel sculpt. From "Histoire Naturelle des Orangers" by A. Risso and A. Poiteau.<br><br> This beautiful work "contains exquisite drawings of every known variety of orange, lemon and grape fruit, and their congeners, fruits that hang from the leaves, alternately like suns or moons, with every kind of rind, and shaped like gourds or pitchers ... or again, authentic globes of fire, whether pale, as of moonlight, or red-gold like the sun but half-hidden, as in poetry, in its own green shade. A beautiful and inspiring work, in its way not less so than Redoute's Les Liliacees ... or Les Roses" (Sacheverell Sitwell, Great Flower Books)<br><br> Antoine Risso, a French apothecary and botanist, lived and worked in Nice in the south of France. Antoine Poiteau, the illustrator, began his career as an apprentice gardener at the Jardin des Plantes, and spent some time in the Caribbean collecting plants before returning to Paris in 1800 and turning to botanical illustration, with an initial style modelled on Van Spaendonck and Redoute.

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Good condition with original color

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Natural History - Botanicals , Fruits and Vegetables