Cyclamen

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Artist/Maker	Bulliard, Pierre (artist)
Place of origin	Paris (printed and published)

This is a plate from Herbier de la France, which was published in Paris between 1780 and 1795. This ambitious herbal contains more than 600 plates. They were all drawn, engraved and colour-printed by the author, Pierre Bulliard. He achieved the entire delicately modulated colour 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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Categories	Access_to_Images 2003 Illustration Prints Gardens & Gardening Science Printed Pages & Sheets SCRAN
Object type	Print
Title	Cyclamen (popular title)
Materials and techniques	Colour engraving Watercolour Bodycolour Printing
Brief description	Print depicting Cyclamen. Plate from Pierre Bulliard's Herbier de la France, 1780-95
Physical description	Print
Dimensions	Sheet height: 33cm Sheet width: 26.6cm Plate height: 23cm Plate width: 17.2cm
Subjects depicted	Cyclamen Flowers
Summary	This is a plate from Herbier de la France, which was published in Paris between 1780 and 1795. This ambitious herbal contains more than 600 plates. They were all drawn, engraved and colour-printed by the author, Pierre Bulliard. He achieved the entire delicately modulated colour 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.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	29638:531

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Record created	February 19, 2004
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O93370/cyclamen-print-bulliard-pierre/

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