Italian Contemporary Hand Painted Botanical Blue Print "Tulipa Narcissus" 5 of 6

Print from the Collection Botanique Bulbacee representing Tulipa and Allium, enriched with blue colors and nuances of watercolor. Another different Bulbacee flowers prints are avail...

Print from the Collection Botanique Bulbacee representing Iris and Viola, enriched with blue colors and nuances of watercolor. Another different Bulbacee flowers prints are availabl...

Narcissus Botanical Engraving, Hand-Colored, Framed, c.1655 Amsterdam This beautifully framed botanical engraving is an exquisite original copperplate print from circa 1655, attribu...

A Group of 4 hand-coloured engraved plates of tulips, in matching silver leaf frames. Dimensions: 34.6cm by 48.5cm. A fine group of these rare flower plates, the complete volume of 40 being part of Le Jardin d'Eden, which was intended as the supplement to the Collection des Fleurs de la Chine & de l'Europe, first published in 1776. [Paris 1781] The second half of the eighteenth century saw a boom in natural history publications in France fuelled by such works as Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle. The accession of Louis XVI in 1774 was followed by a relaxation in the regulation of the book trade making it easier for authors to publish their own works. No other writer was to take such copious advantage of these two developments as Pierre-Joseph Buchoz (1731-1807), a French physician, lawyer and naturalist. His works are characterised by the beauty of the illustrations, and their rarity owing to the small size of the print runs. The final tulip plate...