ANACARDIER
ENGRAVING: Lythograph with coeval colouring with acquarello painting
AUTHOR: Lambert after Turpin
ATLAS: Flore medicinale - Paris, Panckoucke 1814
SIZE OF PAGE:cm 22x12,5
SIZE OF THE ENGRAVING:cm 15,5x9,5
PERIOD: 1814
CONDITIONS: good conditions
This imponent work was made up of different volumes and contained hundreds of engravings that represented all the plant and animal kingdom.
This work derives from an excellent work of luminaries of the 18th century supported by the french King Louis XV and then directed by the same Turpin that was considered as the greatest botanical engraver of his time.
Very white strong paper of good quality