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Botanical Illustrations
1830
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Biography of The Artist
P.J.F. Turpin (1775-1840) was a french Botanist and illustrator and his considered one of the greatest French botanical illustrator.
Turpin studied drawing at the École des Beaux-Arts in Vire, then, in 1780, enlisted as a soldier in the Calvados battalion. In 1794 he was sent to Haiti, where he met Alexandre Poiteau, a gardener at the Paris Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, who taught him botany. Turpin and Poiteau collaborated in a study of Haitian flora; they collected an herbarium of some 1,200 plants, of which Turpin made drawings of a large number.
In 1800 he made a trip to the United States, where he met Humboldt, In 1802 Turpin settled in France to devote himself to botany and botanical illustration.
As a botanical artist Turpin achieved a fame equal to that of Redouté. He collaborated on a number of the most important botanical publications of the early nineteenth century, including Humboldt’s Plantae aequinoctiales. . . in ordem digessit Amatus Bonpland, Benjamin Delessert’s Icones selectae plantarum pr. part., and J. L. M. Poiret’s Leçons de flore, to which he contributed fifty-seven plates. He also made a number of drawings for the Flore du dictionnaire des sciences médicales.Description of the work
These prints are from an extremely rare work of beautifully hand colored stipple engravings. It derives form the work of the luminaries of the 18th century and the later direction of Turpin. The "Dizionario di Scienze Naturali" in 26 text volumes and 4 atlas volumes came as one of the most extensive and wonderfull Natural History Dictionary.
First published in France, it was then published in Italian in 1830 by Batelli & Sons (Ref: Ceresoli).
The prints in excellent condition, are beautifully executed stipple engravings in very fine detail, all with original handcolouring. The colours are bright and very intense on a creamy white medium weight paper. Some are heightened with gold & silver.
Each print measures approximately 6 inches wide by 8 2/3 inches long, with descriptions in Latin &/or Italian.
There is no accompanying text. The images cannot show the minute detail of the stipple engravings. All our prints are guaranteed authentic antique prints. These prints are extremely rare.