Allium Ursinum

Permanent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d20129133
Title:
Allium Ursinum
Contributor:
Redouté, Pierre Joseph, 1759-1840 (Artist, Engraver)
Publisher:
Paris : Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Date created:
[ca. 1811]
Type of resource:
Still image
Genre:
Engravings (prints)
Format:
Image
electronic
Digital origin:
reformatted digital
Abstract/Description:
Pierre-Joseph Redouté's Allium ursinum displays tremendous realism. Occasionally known as ramsons, the plant joins other fifty-nine other petaloid monocotyledons featured in the volume six of Redouté's masterpiece Les Liliacées. The artist simulates convincing leaves with accurate value, color, and texture from an intense study clearly based from life. Wispy roots protrude from the hooked end of the plant's stem, adding an ethereal aesthetic to the otherwise vivid print. Redouté's Allium ursinum depicts a scientific botanical with masterful naturalism.
Related item:
Les Liliacées
Botanical Prints
Subjects and keywords:
Allium ursinum
Ramsons
Allium
Alliaceae
Amaryllidaceae
Bulbs (Plants)
Plants
Identifier:
botanical_redoute_016
Permanent URL:
http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d20129133
Location:
Northeastern University Library
Use and reproduction:
No Copyright. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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