Early 19th Century "Bonchrétien D'Eté Musqué (Pears)" Stipple Engraving by Perrot After Poiteau

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POITEAU, A. and P. TURPIN.
Traité des arbres Fruitiers (Treatise of the Fruit Trees), Nouvelle Edition.
Published by H. Perronneau … more POITEAU, A. and P. TURPIN.
Traité des arbres Fruitiers (Treatise of the Fruit Trees), Nouvelle Edition.
Published by H. Perronneau for T. Delachausée, Paris 1807-1835.

Charming stipple engraving of Pears, the plate printed in colours and finished by hand; engraved by Giraud after drawings by P.F.J. Turpin.

'One of the finest and rarest books on fruit' (Dunthorne p.192). This series takes its title from Duhamel's Traité of 1768; it is however an independent work and was intended as Poiteau and Turpin's homage to the earlier work. A team of over twenty engravers was involved. The colour printing was by Langlois, the great French colour-printer who supervised much of Barraband’s and Redouté's work. less