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(Plate 141.)
Artist
- Name:
- Redouté, Pierre-Joseph
- Dates:
- 1759-1840
- Country:
- Belgium
Illustration
- Subject:
- Plants
- Technique:
- Metal engraving
- Engraver:
- Langlois
- 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 a bunch of flowers consisting of yellow Austrian briars (Rosa foetida) (?) and pink China roses (Rosa chinensis), with two butterflies fluttering about. The author suggests that Redouté mistook Rosa chinensis for Rosa indica.
The caption reads in the original French: Variétés de Rose Jaune et de Rose du Bengale — Rosa lutea & Rosa indica (var.).
Keywords: 1820s, 19th century, butterfly, color, flower, reference book, Rosaceae, rose
