‎Freret, L. [in C.L. L'héritier de Brutelle]‎
‎Robinia subdecandra. Plate LXXV from: Stirpes novae, aut minus cognitae, quas descriptionibus et iconibus illustravit.‎

‎1791 Handcoloured engraved plate drawn by Fretet and engraved by Jacques Juillet, broadsheet or large imperial folio (44 x 60 cm). Uncut. Although this plate without marginal traces of watercolour, which most of the plates in my series have, and which makes me believe that this plate (and the other ten I have for sale) were used as examples for the colourists. At the back there are traces of glue which are not not affecting the front (stuck to a support for the colourists?). A repaired marginal (corner) tear, and a tiny (2 x 3 mm) repaired hole outside the imprint area. We also have for sale the general title-page and the title-pages of the first and second installments, and plates by Redouté and Fossier.Two beautiful plates after drawings by Ludovic Freret. This one is taken from the very rare deluxe large paper and hand-coloured edition of this work, with plates coloured by Piere Redouté and his brother Henri-Joseph Redouté. In 1965 about 44 copies of the work were known of which 9 incomplete, and of 31 studied only 11 were large-sized.In Stirpes novae Charles L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746-1800) described a great number of new species, many of which grew in his own garden, the gardens of his friends and in the Jardin du Roi. See: Günther Buchheim, 1965. A bibliographical account of L'Héritier's 'Stirpes novae'.‎

Reference : BF28080

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