La Pervenche de Java (The Perwinkle of Java, from the Collection of Usual, Curious, and Foreign Plants)
Medium
Etching,stipple, and roulette with handcoloring with typeset attachment on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 29.3 × 19.3 cm (11 9/16 × 7 5/8 in.); Sheet: 42.7 × 28.7 cm (16 13/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
149563
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Gautier D’Agoty cited the Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus as the source of his classification of plants in this volume. The printmaker had branched out from his usual subject of anatomy, and his coloring lacks some of his characteristic vibrancy. While there are areas of color added with a roulette (the tool used to create even patches of soft color in a mezzotint), the stippled background and etched detail predominate. The letterpress text describing this particular specimen has been pasted bel...