Rare 1816 Turpin Hand-Colored Engravings Dictionnaire Sciences, RESEDA lutea For Sale

~ Combined Shipping! ~1784-1790 Scarce Botanical Copper-Plate Engraving From:DICTIONNAIREDESSCIENCES NATURELLESPlanches Botanique
PARIS 1816-1829
RESEDA lutea(Yellow mignonette or Wild mignonette)Scarce original antique, hand-colored botanical engraving from the Botanique(Botany) section of Pierre Jean Francis Turpin’s epic Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (Dictionary of Natural Sciences). Appears to be from the French version.These are gems. The drawing, composition, detail work in the stipple-engraving, the brilliant coloring \'A La poupee\' (colored in the plate) & hand-water-coloring are magnificent.The quality of the work is superb, a true find. Note that all the tiny, perfect lettering in the text is all hand-engraved into the plate!

The Volumes:
The Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles was an epic, comprehensive illustrated work of Natural History, with 72 volumes ultimately published between 1816 and 1830, comprising 60 volumes of text, 11 of plates and 1 of tables. The text was written by the luminaries of science of the time, everyone from Cuvier to Lamarck.The Plates:
Most of the illustrations in this work were engraved under the direction of Turpin, after paintings by Turpin & Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, a total of some 1191 plates in black and white with deluxe versions in hand-color (with alternate versions of all the plate volumes published in entirely black & white apparently).

Every part of these prints was made by hand: Hand drawn & engraved on Copper which was hand-mined, smelted & rolled, printed onto handmade cotton rag paper, inked & colored with hand-ground pigments individually by hand, & they were usually hand sewn into handmade leather-bound books.

The Artist:
The French botanist and illustrator Pierre Jean François Turpin (1775 -1840) is considered one of the greatest floral and botanical illustrators of his time.In 1794 he was stationed in Haiti as a member of the French Army where he met botanist Pierre Antoine Poiteau (1766-1854).Turpin and Poiteau collaborated in a study of Haitian flora; they collected an herbarium of some 1,200 plants, of which Turpin made drawings of a large number, and of which they together described about 800 species.Through his collaboration with Poiteau and other naturalists, Turpin created some of the finest watercolors and illustrations of plants that are known to exist.As a botanical artist Turpin achieved a fame equal to that of Redouté. He collaborated on a number of the most important botanical publications of the early nineteenth century.

Condition:
Appears to be in good condition for a 209-year-old engraving. Clean with some typical antiquarian character & age. These prints are very old & may have minor imperfections expected with age, such as some typical age-toning of the paper, oxidation of the old original watercolors, spots, text-offsetting, artifacts from having been bound into a book, etc. Please examine the photos & details carefully.

Text Page(s): This one comes without original text page(s). I\'ve included a scan of a title page from one of the related volumes for reference, it\'s not part of this listing.

Size: 8x5 inches approximately.

Combined Shipping:
Yes! Multiple prints can be combine into one Priority Mail flat-rate envelope or package. Larger prints may need to be shipped in tube. should auto-combine your items if you put all of your selections into your shopping cart & check out all together as one order.If you purchase them individually, charges shipping on each, which I then will refund after. If you\'re assessed multiple shipping charges for one combined package, I will endeavor to refund any overage asap.

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Please note: The information I\'ve included in this listing is based on my best research as an enthusiast of these works, not a professional historian of antiquarian books & prints. I do like to offer researched some background information readily available to me but make no claims representations of total accuracy. Any corrections or further information you might offer would certainly appreciated! The scans in the images are my best efforts to accurately show the item. Antique prints & old paper are notoriously tricky to scan accurately. In my experience, scanners tend to be thrown off by the off-whites & gradations in age-toned paper. If the scanner produces a scan that\'s too dark or too brown, etc, I\'ll often try to reasonably color-correct to represent the print as accurately as possible. I\'m not a professional in color-correcting images yet I try my best to show the print as close to the original as possible. I also find that different monitors show colors differently, & \'s system can sometimes throw off the colors a bit in the uploaded JPEG images as they appear on their site. I do take great pains to make these listings as professional as possible. Thank you!