SET OF 3 PRINTS! 1816 TURPIN DICT. SCIENCES NATURELLES (CONCHYLIOLOGY, SHELLS)

Description: Three Rare 1816 Hand-Colored Copperplate Stipple-Engravings from: DICTIONNAIREDESSCIENCES NATURELLES ZOOLOGIA CONCHYLIOLOGIE, ZOOLOGIE(Entomostomes, Turriculees) A set of Three original antique, hand-colored Shell engravings from the Zoologie section of Pierre Jean Francis Turpin’s epic Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. Appears to be from the French version.These all feel like they go together. They are gorgeous gems.The drawing, composition, detail work in the stipple-engraving, the brilliant coloring 'A La poupee' (colored in the plate) & hand-water-coloring are magnificent. It's also in very good condition as these go, with vibrant colors, & the paper showing very little age or toning. The Artist:The French botanist and illustrator Pierre Jean François Turpin (1775 -1840) is considered one of the greatest floral and botanical illustrators of his time.In 1794 he was stationed in Haiti as a member of the French Army where he met botanist Pierre Antoine Poiteau (1766-1854).Turpin and Poiteau collaborated in a study of Haitian flora; they collected an herbarium of some 1,200 plants, of which Turpin made drawings of a large number, and of which they together described about 800 species.Through his collaboration with Poiteau and other naturalists, Turpin created some of the finest watercolors and illustrations of plants that are known to exist. As a botanical artist Turpin achieved a fame equal to that of Redouté. He collaborated on a number of the most important botanical publications of the early nineteenth century.Jean-Gabriel Prêtre (20 December 1768 – 29 April 1849) was a Swiss-French natural history painter who illustrated birds, mammals and reptiles in a large number of books. Several species of animal were named after him. The Volumes:The Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles was an epic, comprehensive illustrated work of Natural History, with 72 volumes ultimately published between 1816 and 1830, comprising 60 volumes of text, 11 of plates and 1 of tables.The text was written by the luminaries of science of the time, everyone from Cuvier to Lamarck. The Plates:Most of the illustrations in this work were engraved under the direction of Turpin, after paintings by Turpin & Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, a total of some 1191 plates in black and white with deluxe versions in hand-color (with versions of all the plate volumes published in entirely black & white apparently) Every part of these prints was made by hand: Hand drawn & engraved on Copper which was hand-mined, smelted & rolled, printed onto handmade cotton rag paper, inked & colored with hand-ground pigments individually by hand, & they were usually hand sewn into handmade leather-bound books. Condition:Appears to be in Very good condition for 208-year-old engravings. The hand-coloring appears to remain sharp & brilliant as the day it was painted. very little age-toning for a print this old. Please peruse the detailed photos. It's also larger than usual.These prints are very old & may have minor imperfections expected with age, such as some typical age-toning of the paper, oxidation of the old original watercolors, spots, text-offsetting, artifacts from having been bound into a book, etc. Please examine the photos & details carefully.Text Page(s): This one comes without original text page. I've added a scan of a sample cover page from one of the volumes to the listing photos for reference, it's not part of the listing. About These Gorgeous Creatures:Conchology (from Ancient Greek κόγχος (kónkhos) 'cockle', and -logy) is the study of mollusc shells. Conchology is one aspect of malacology, the study of molluscs; however, malacology is the study of molluscs as whole organisms, whereas conchology is confined to the study of their shells.Entomostome Describes a shell whose opening has an indentation. Turricula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clavatulidae. Size: Each print is 9-1/2" x 6-1/4" inches approximately.Shipping: Multiple prints combine into one USPS Flat-Rate envelope. If you'd like to combine & need more time to choose, please send a message & we'll do our best to oblige. If you're assessed multiple shipping for one combined package, we'll endeavor to refund any overage asap. Thanks for Visiting!

Price: 34.5 USD

Location: Great Barrington, Massachusetts

End Time: 2024-09-22T12:43:35.000Z

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