print;
book-illustration;
book
- Museum number
- 1900,0717.50.1-47
- Description
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A book: Gautier D'Agoty's "Collection de plantes usuelles, curieuses & étrangères selon les systèmes de MM Tournefort et Linnaeus" (Paris, 1767); an imperfect copy, wanting the title-page and containing only twenty-six colour mezzotints by Gautier d'Agoty (1900,0717.50.1-26); also bound up with the above work are twenty-one (1900,0717.50.27-47) etchings, coloured by hand, after drawings of flowers by Jacques-Henri de Sève
Colour mezzotint; hand-coloured etchings; letterpress text
- Production date
- 1767 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 392 millimetres (sheet size)
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Width: 262 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bound with cardoboard cover and leather spine reading "RECUEIL D'ESTE".
In this copy, "Collection de plantes usuelles..." is illustrated with 26 plates; the department register indicates that "the copy in the [British] Library has 40".
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Collection de plantes usuelles, curieuses & étrangères selon les systèmes de MM Tournefort et Linnaeus
- Acquisition date
- 1900
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1900,0717.50.1-47
