Antique Botany Print of Campanula Americana by Dodart 'circa 1680'

1680 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Antique Botany Print of Campanula Americana by Dodart 'circa 1680'

Name: Antique Botany Print of Campanula Americana by Dodart 'circa 1680'
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12512-63
Price: 280 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1680
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 49.5 × 35.5 cm (19.5 × 14 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning and some soiling. Minor wear and creasing, blank verso. Please study images carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Reference: BG-12512-63

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

The American bellflower, Campanula americana, in an original copper engraving from Denis Dodart's Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des plantes, a Paris botanical work of the later seventeenth century. The plate is lettered "Trachelium Americanum minus, flore coeruleo patulo" beneath the image, and a signature at lower right reads "N. Robert del. et sculp."

The plant is drawn at full length against a plain ground within a ruled border: a tall, leafy flowering stem carries open, star-shaped blossoms near the top, and the roots spread in fine detail at the base. At the left, a separate small rosette of leaves with its own root tuft shows an earlier growth stage of the same plant. The engraving is in black and white with careful line shading, in the clear, scientific manner of the Paris royal botanical illustrations of the period.

The sheet is dated circa 1680 here. Dodart's Mémoires was produced under the Académie royale des sciences, and its plates are valued for their botanical accuracy as well as their craftsmanship; this one records an American species as it reached European gardens and herbaria.

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