A Pair of Early 19th C. Botanical Original Color Copper Engravings
Item Number: 188
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Description
Two early 19th C. original color copper engravings: 'Yellow Oak' and 'Gray Oak' (6 1/4" x 9 3/4" approx.), donated by Salli LaGrone and Tom Delcambre at Fine Offerings.
These are beautifully colored plates from the book, Histoire des Chenes de l'Amerique (Trees of America), by Andre Michaux (1746-1802), translated by Lezermes, and illustrated by Pierre Joseph and Henri Joseph Redoute. Andre Michaux was sent to America in 1785 by the French government to collect timber trees and plants useful as either food or medicine, and thousands of trees were sent back to the royal nurseries at Rambouillet. Their nursery garden in Charleston, South Carolina, also acted as a center for the introduction of plants new to America, among them the 'ginkgo' tree. For the greater part of the 19th century, in its French or English version, the books of Andre Michaux and his son, Francois Andre, remained the standard account of transatlantic trees.Visit Fine Offerings at 2108 8th Avenue S., Suite B, Nashville, TN. 37204 Tel. 615 460-7992
Special Instructions
Both engravings are without frames and have some foxing at the edges.
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Donated by
Salli LaGrone & Tom Delcambre at Fine Offerings