Cuckoo Pint
Print
1780-1795 (published)
1780-1795 (published)
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This is a plate from Herbier de la France, published in Paris between 1780 and 1795. This ambitious publication contains more than 600 plates, all of which were drawn, engraved and colour-printed by the author, Pierre Bulliard. He achieved the delicately modulated colour entirely by printing with three tint plates over an engraved black outline and shading. The Herbier is one of the most impressive examples of colour printing in the history of botanical illustration.
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| Materials and techniques | Colour engraving |
| Brief description | Botanical illustration of Cuckoo's Pint. Colour engraving. Plate from Pierre Bulliard's Herbier de la France, 1780-95; French. |
| Physical description | Botanical illustration showing parts of a Cuckoo's Pint plant, including flower head, root and leaf, separately arranged standing vertically side-by-side within a border, each part is numbered A-E. Page header at top and descriptive text below. Flower head is red. |
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| Summary | This is a plate from Herbier de la France, published in Paris between 1780 and 1795. This ambitious publication contains more than 600 plates, all of which were drawn, engraved and colour-printed by the author, Pierre Bulliard. He achieved the delicately modulated colour entirely by printing with three tint plates over an engraved black outline and shading. The Herbier is one of the most impressive examples of colour printing in the history of botanical illustration. |
| Bibliographic reference | Bulliard, Pierre. Herbier de la France , ou collection complette des plantes indigenes de ce royaume; avec leurs détails anatomiques, leurs propriétés, et leurs usages en medecine. Paris: published in parts by the author, 1780-95. |
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| Accession number | 29638:534 |
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| Record created | December 23, 2003 |
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