La Laitue Cultivee, Laetuca Sativa.

Detailed botanical print made on drawings by Jacques De Sève, a French illustrator of the eighteenth century, renowned for his faithful reproductions of plants and animals.

Published around the year 1795 by Brisseau-Mirbel, who has a reputation for being the most skilled and ingenious of French botanist-anatomists of the early 19th century. He should be considered the founder of microscopic plant anatomy. His treatise on plant anatomy and physiology made him famous all over the world.

Very suitable for framing.

 

Brisseau de Mirbel
Title
Laetuca Sativa Plant, ca. 1795
Publication Place / Date
Image Dimensions
Paris / ca.1795
20 by 13 cm
Color
Condition
Copperplate Engraving
VG
Product Price
Product Number
USD 40
SKU #P.2036