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Collection des Fleurs et des Fruits, peints d'Après Nature, par Jean-Louis Prevost, et tires de son porte-feuille

Print
1805 (published)
Artist/Maker
Ruotte, Louis Charles (engraver)
Prévost, Jean Louis (artist)
Place of origin
Paris (published)

Print depicting fruits and flowers.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Botanical Art
Object type
Print
TitleCollection des Fleurs et des Fruits, peints d'Après Nature, par Jean-Louis Prevost, et tires de son porte-feuille (series title)
Materials and techniques
Colour stipple engraving with additional colour by hand
Stipple Engraving
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
Print (one of three) depicting fruits and flowers. Plate 21 from 'Collection des Fleurs et des Fruits, peints d'Après Nature, par Jean-Louis Prevost, et tires de son porte-feuille'. Engraved by Louis Charles Ruotte after Jean Louis Prévost. Paris, 1805.
Physical description
Print depicting fruits and flowers.
Dimensions
  • Height: 53.3cm
  • Width: 35.6cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963. London: HMSO, 1964.
Marks and inscriptions
  • '6e. Cahier Pl. 21'

    Note
    Numbered in the top corners

  • 'J. L. Prevost pinxt. A Paris chez Vilquin. Md. d'Estampes, grande cour du Palais du Tribunat, No.20. Ruotte Sculp.

    Note
    Lettered at the bottom of sheet with artist's and publisher's names

Object history
This plate is one of three from Collection des Fleurs et des Fruits, peints d’Après Nature, par Jean-Louis Prevost, et tires de son porte-feuille, with text by P. M. Gault de Saint Germain, Paris, 1805. An example of this book is in the Victoria and Albert Museum Library.
Production
Attribution note: Printed from a single plate.
Subjects depicted
Flower
Fruit
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.224-1963

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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