All Resolutions
(Plate 19.)
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
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
Hand-colored stipple engraving showing Cypripedium calceolus, a species of flowering plant in the Orchidaceae family. It is a terrestrial orchid of the lady’s slipper type, native to temperate regions of Europe and Asia, with yellow and red-brown flowers that resemble a slipper. This plant is put under increasing pressure in many parts of its range due to habitat loss and over-collection.
The caption reads in the original French: Cypripedium calceolus — Sabot des Alpes.
Keywords: 1800s, 19th century, color, flower, Les liliacées, Orchidaceae, reference book
