Gladiol Italicus. Balicacabus Indicus arborescens.

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• ARTIST: Pierre Vallet

• MEDIUM: Etching, hand colored,

  DATE: 1608.

• EDITION SIZE: Platemark 11 7/8 x 6 3/4" (30 x 17 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: From Vallet's work "Le Jardin du Roy Tres Chrestian Henry IV," published in Paris. This work is considered the first important florilegium and a work of great beauty. Vallet's plates were copied frequently, most notbly by De Bry and Sweert.

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Good condition and color.

• REFERENCE: De Belder #370. Blunt, Botanical Illus, pp. 88-91.

• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Natural History - Botanicals , Other Flowers