All Resolutions
(Plate 4.)
Artist
- Name:
- Redouté, Pierre-Joseph
- Dates:
- 1759-1840
- Country:
- Belgium
Illustration
- Subject:
- Plants
- Technique:
- Metal engraving
- Engraver:
- Gouy, de
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Missouri Botanical Garden, the Internet Archive
- Observations:
- "Tassaert direxit," bottom right
Book
- Title:
- Les liliacées, vol 1
- Author(s):
- Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de, Redouté, Pierre-Joseph
- Publisher:
- Paris: Chez l'auteur, 1805
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
Stipple engraving showing an African lily (Agapanthus africanus), a perennial herbaceous plant in the family Amaryllidaceae native to South Africa. It produces blue or white flowers in spherical clusters atop tall, slender stems.
the caption reads in the original French: Agapanthus umbellatus — Agapanthe en ombelle.
Keywords: 1800s, 19th century, Amaryllidaceae, blue, color, flower, Les liliacées, reference book
