Fruits, Figs, Figues, Ficus, Feigen, Redouté

"Arbres fruitiers Ficus - Figues" Plate 18 (Figs)

1 Coucourelle brune - 2 Mouissoune hâtive seve - 3 Figue royale, figue de Versailles -

4 Mourenaou - 5 Mouissone seve

Originally hand-colored aquatint by Anne Rosalie Filleul (married Bocquet 1752-1794 - she was decapitated in the consequence of the French revolution)

After the painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840)

Published in "Nouveau Duhamel, ou Traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en France"

By Henri Louis Duhamel de Monceau (1700-1782)

Publisher: Pierre Antoine Poiteau (1766-1854)

Paris, 1812

Real masterpiece of aquatint printing!!! Some faint foxing. Minimal traces of age and use.

Platemark measurements: 301,4 x 24,3 cm (ca. 12,5 x 9.5)

Sheet: 53 x 31,5 cm (ca. 20 x 12.4")
Ficus carica; small deciduous tree or large shrub; botanical;
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Moraceae
Genus: Ficus
Subgenus: F. subg. Ficus
Species: F. carica
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