Collection of seventy-eight water color plates of plants

1700 · 22 pictures

A manuscript collection of seventy-eight watercolour plates of medicinal plants, made in France around 1700, likely for medical study or materia medica reference. The pictures show branches drawn in ochre, brown and gold washes with handwritten French names beside each specimen, and a designer might take from them the layered botanical sequences, the tinted leaf forms and the hand-lettered labels.

Botanical illustration · Medicinal plants · Materia medica, Vegetable · Botany, Medical · Herbals · Plants · Manuscripts, French · Botanical illustration -- Early works to 1800 · Medicinal plants -- Early works to 1800 · Materia medica, Vegetable -- Early works to 1800 · Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800 · Herbals -- Early works to 1800 · Plants -- Early works to 1800

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