1986 Blue Gentian Print by Redouté sports with lovely ripe bright red

with lovely ripe bright red cheeries by the famous 19th century botanical French painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté

was intended to be seen at a much smaller magnification so that some printing defects

French vintage animal illustration depicting small mammals from Australia and Tasmania

named after a famous rose garden in a suburb of Paris

The back is also printed and shows the human skeleton and nervous system in gray ink

1986 Blue Gentian Print by Redouté sports with lovely ripe bright redIf you love nothing more that traipsing around the mountains, you've seen them everywhere the lovely purplish blue gentians. They are one of the iconic flowers of the Alps in particular and incorporated into local liqueur. And it was traditionnally used to produced natural dyes too. Isn't there something captivating about botanical illustration? When a master captures the very essence of the flower so well that you can feel the velvetness of the