All Resolutions
(Plate 11.)
Artist
- Name:
- Redouté, Pierre-Joseph
- Dates:
- 1759-1840
- Country:
- Belgium
Illustration
- Subject:
- Plants
- Technique:
- Metal engraving
- Engraver:
- Victor
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Missouri Botanical Garden Library, The Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Choix des plus belles fleurs et des plus beaux fruits
- Author(s):
- Guillemin, Jean Baptiste Antoine
- Publisher:
- Paris: Ernest Panckoucke, n.d. [1827-1833]
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
Stipple engraving showing the flowering stem and a leaf of a blue garden hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis, or also common hyacinth).
The caption reads in the original French: Jacinthe d’Orient, variété bleue.
Keywords: 1820s, 19th century, Asparagaceae, blue, color, flower, reference book
