Price: $250.00
SKU: 92940
ARTIST: Pancrace Bessa
PUBLISHER: Published in Paris. Chez H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour, rue Saint Jacques, a Saint Thomas d'Aquin.
MEDIUM: Stipple engraving, colored by hand,
DATE: c. 1812
EDITION SIZE: Image size 9 7/8 x 6 1/2" (24.7 x 16.6 cm).
DESCRIPTION: Quercus Suber: Chene Liege [Acorns] From Traite des Arbres et Arbustes by Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, published in Paris, 1800–1825. Drawn by Pancrace Bessa, a disciple and associate of Pierre Joseph Redoute, the celebrated French flower painter. This finely engraved plate depicts the acorns of the cork oak (Quercus suber), a Mediterranean species valued both for its fruit and for the thick, rugged bark harvested as cork.
ADDITIONAL INFO: This piece is in a 11 x 17 inch archival mylar for handling.
CONDITION: Good condition, save for scattered foxing.
REFERENCE: Dunthorne 243. Nissen 549. DeBelder 111.
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