Fruits, Figues, Figs, Ficus, Feigen, Redouté
"Arbres fruitiers Ficus - Figues" Plate 21 ( Figs)
1 Angelique, coucourelle blanche - 2 Figue de Marseille - 3 Verte de Cuers, des Dames - 4 Rose-noire
Originally hand-colored aquatint
by Anne Rosalie Filleul (married Bocquet 1752-1794 - she was decapitated in the consequence of the French revolution)
After the painting by Pierre Joseph Redouté (1759-1840)
Published in " Nouveau Duhamel, ou Traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en France"
By Henri Louis Duhamel de Monceau (1700-1782)
Publisher: Pierre Antoine Poiteau (1766-1854)
Paris, 1812
Real masterpiece of aquatint printing!!! Some faint foxing. Minimal traces of age and use.
Platemark measurements: 30,7 x 23,3 cm (ca. 12 x 7.2"9
Sheet: 53 x 31,5 cm (ca. 20 x 12.4")
Keywords:
Ficus carica; small deciduous tree or large shrub; botanical;
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Moraceae
Genus: Ficus
Subgenus: F. subg. Ficus
Species: F. carica