Champignon de la France, a French antique mushroom engraving, 1791
By Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'L'Agaric Couleuvre' A French copper-line engravings with original printed colouring of mushrooms by Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard (1742-1793). From Bulliard's 'Histoire des Champignons de la France', a series of engravings describing the mushrooms of France, published in Paris in 1791. This series of engravings are 'probably the first botanical work completely colour-printed without retouching by hand' (Great Flower Books...
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard Art
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