Catalogue of the Botanical Art Collection at the Hunt Institute
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Accession Number: 2090
Artist Name: Redouté, Pierre-Joseph
Life Span: (1759-1840)
Nationality: Belgium
Gender: Male
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Title: Amaryllis umbella
Taxon:
Cyrtanthus obliquus (Linnaeus fil.) Aiton, Amaryllidaceae
Description:
Medium: stipple engraving
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 62.5 x 48
Image Size: 54 x 40
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Published: L'Héritier de Brutelle, C. L., Sertum Anglicum. 1788-[1792]. Paris, Didot. Pl. 16.
Printmaker: likely Jean Baptiste Guyard, Sr. (fl. 1783–1803?)
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Accession Number: 2091
Artist Name: Robert, Nicolas
Life Span: (1614-1685)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Melo vulgaris
Taxon:
Cucumis melo Linnaeus, Cucurbitaceae
Description:
Medium: engraving (restrike)
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 38 x 56.5
Image Size: 30 x 40.5
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Published: Dionys Dodart, D. 1788. Recueil des Plantes ... Paris: Anisson-Duperon.
Printmaker: Robert, Nicolas, Abraham Bosse (ca.1604–1676) or Louis de Chastillon (1639–1734)
Notes: N. Robert in. f. [made by] on print
HIBD Exhibitions: Botany and History Entwined: Rachel Hunt's Legacy (2011)
HIBD Publications: Tancin, C. A., L. B. Bruno, A. L. Todd and D. W. Brown. 2011. Botany and History Entwined: Rachel Hunt’s Legacy. Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.
Accession Number: 2092
Artist Name: Robert, Nicolas
Life Span: (1614-1685)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Heliotropium americanum ...
Taxon:
Heliotropium Linnaeus, Boraginaceae
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Medium: engraving (restrike)
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 56.5 x 38
Image Size: 41 x 30
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Published: Dionys Dodart, D. 1788. Recueil des Plantes ... Paris: Anisson-Duperon.
Printmaker: Robert, Nicolas
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Accession Number: 2093
Artist Name: Robert, Nicolas
Life Span: (1614-1685)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Lilium montanum...
Taxon:
Lilium Linnaeus, Liliaceae
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Medium: engraving (restrike)
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 56.5 x 38
Image Size: 40.5 x 30
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Published: Dionys Dodart, D. 1788. Recueil des Plantes ... Paris: Anisson-Duperon.
Printmaker: ? Bosse, Abraham (1602-1676)
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Accession Number: 2094
Artist Name: Robert, Nicolas ? or Chastillon [also Chatillon], Louis de ?
Life Span: (1614-1685) and (ca.1639-1734)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Castanea equina, Maronier d'Inde
Taxon:
Aesculus hippocastanum Linnaeus, Hippocastanaceae
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Medium: engraving (restrike)
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 56.5 x 38
Image Size: 40.5 x 30
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Published: Dionys Dodart, D. 1788. Recueil des Plantes ... Paris: Anisson-Duperon.
Printmaker: Bosse, Abraham (1602-1676)
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Accession Number: 2095
Artist Name: Robert, Nicolas
Life Span: (1614-1685)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Lunaria major ...
Taxon:
Lunaria Linnaeus, Brassicaceae alt. Cruciferae
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Medium: engraving (restrike)
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 56.5 x 38
Image Size: 40.5 x 30
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Published: Dionys Dodart, D. 1788. Recueil des Plantes ... Paris: Anisson-Duperon.
Printmaker: Robert, Nicolas
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Accession Number: 2096
Artist Name: Robert, Nicolas
Life Span: (1614-1685)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Tussilago vulgaris
Taxon:
Tussilago Linnaeus, Asteraceae alt. Compositae
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Medium: engraving (restrike)
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 56.5 x 38
Image Size: 40.5 x 30
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Published: Dionys Dodart, D. 1788. Recueil des Plantes ... Paris: Anisson-Duperon.
Printmaker: Robert, Nicolas
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Accession Number: 2097
Artist Name: Robert, Nicolas ? and Chastillon [also Chatillon], Louis de ?
Life Span: (1614-1685) and (ca.1639-1734)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Limonium hispanicum ...
Taxon:
Limonium P. Miller, Plumbaginaceae
Description:
Medium: engraving (restrike)
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 38 x 56.5
Image Size: 30 x 40.5
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Published: Dionys Dodart, D. 1788. Recueil des Plantes ... Paris: Anisson-Duperon.
Printmaker: Bosse, Abraham (1602–1676) or de Chastillon [also Chatillon], Louis Claude
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Accession Number: 2098
Artist Name: Robert, Nicolas
Life Span: (1614-1685)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Clematis trifolia ...
Taxon:
Passiflora Linnaeus, Passifloraceae
Description:
Medium: engraving (restrike)
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 56.5 x 38
Image Size: 41 x 30
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Published: Dionys Dodart, D. 1788. Recueil des Plantes ... Paris: Anisson-Duperon.
Printmaker: Robert, Nicolas
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Accession Number: 2099
Artist Name: Robert, Nicolas
Life Span: (1614-1685)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Populago
Taxon:
Caltha P. Miller, Ranunculaceae
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Medium: engraving (restrike)
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Dimensions (cm): 56.5 x 38
Image Size: 40.5 x 30
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Published: Dionys Dodart, D. 1788. Recueil des Plantes ... Paris: Anisson-Duperon.
Printmaker: Chastillon [also Chatillon], Louis Claude de (1639-1734)
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Accession Number: 2100
Artist Name: Robert, Nicolas
Life Span: (1614-1685)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Carlina acaulos ...
Taxon:
Carlina Linnaeus, Asteraceae alt. Compositae
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Medium: engraving (restrike)
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Dimensions (cm): 56.5 x 38
Image Size: 40.5 x 30
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Published: Dionys Dodart, D. 1788. Recueil des Plantes ... Paris: Anisson-Duperon.
Printmaker: Robert, Nicolas
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HIBD Exhibitions: Dangerous Beauty: Thorns, Spines and Prickles (2014)
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Accession Number: 2101
Artist Name: Robert, Nicolas ? or Chastillon [also Chatillon], Louis de ?
Life Span: (1614-1685) and (ca.1639-1734)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Helenium indicum ...
Taxon:
Helianthus Linnaeus, Asteraceae alt. Compositae
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Medium: engraving (restrike)
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 56.5 x 38
Image Size: 40.5 x 30
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Published: Dionys Dodart, D. 1788. Recueil des Plantes ... Paris: Anisson-Duperon.
Printmaker: Bosse, Abraham (1602-1676)
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Accession Number: 2102
Artist Name: Chastillon [also Chatillon], Louis de
Life Span: (ca.1639-1734)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Solanum pomiferum
Taxon:
Solanum Linnaeus, Solanaceae
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Medium: engraving (restrike)
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Dimensions (cm): 56.5 x 38
Image Size: 42.5 x 31.5
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Published: Dionys Dodart, D. 1788. Recueil des Plantes ... Paris: Anisson-Duperon. Pl. 288?
Printmaker: de Chastillon [also Chatillon], Louis Claude
Notes: de Chastillon fe. [made by] on plate
HIBD Exhibitions: Dangerous Beauty: Thorns, Spines and Prickles (2014)
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Accession Number: 2103
Artist Name: Robert, Nicolas
Life Span: (1614-1685)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Narcissus sylvestris ...
Taxon:
Narcissus Linnaeus, Amaryllidaceae
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Medium: engraving (restrike)
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Dimensions (cm): 56.5 x 38
Image Size: 40.5 x 30
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Published: Dionys Dodart, D. 1788. Recueil des Plantes ... Paris: Anisson-Duperon.
Printmaker: Robert, Nicolas
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Accession Number: 2104
Artist Name: Robert, Nicolas ? or Chastillon [also Chatillon], Louis de ?
Life Span: (1614-1685) and (ca.1639-1734)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Mandragora mas
Taxon:
Mandragora Linnaeus, Solanaceae
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Medium: engraving (restrike)
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Dimensions (cm): 56.5 x 38
Image Size: 41 x 30
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Published: Dionys Dodart, D. 1788. Recueil des Plantes ... Paris: Anisson-Duperon.
Printmaker: Bosse, Abraham (1602-1676)
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Accession Number: 2105
Artist Name: Robert, Nicolas ? or Chastillon [also Chatillon], Louis de ?
Life Span: (1614-1685) and (ca.1639-1734)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Cucumis sylvestris ...
Taxon:
Ecballium A. Richard, Cucurbitaceae
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Dimensions (cm): 56.5 x 38
Image Size: 40.5 x 30
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Published: Dionys Dodart, D. 1788. Recueil des Plantes ... Paris: Anisson-Duperon.
Printmaker: Bosse, Abraham (1602-1676)
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Accession Number: 2106
Artist Name: Robert, Nicolas
Life Span: (1614-1685)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Sanicula americana ...
Taxon:
Tiarella Linnaeus, Saxifragaceae
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Medium: engraving (restrike)
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 56.5 x 38
Image Size: 41 x 30.5
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Published: Dionys Dodart, D. 1788. Recueil des Plantes ... Paris: Anisson-Duperon.
Printmaker: Chastillon [also Chatillon], Louis Claude de (1639-1734)
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Accession Number: 2107
Artist Name: Unknown
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Taxon:
Rosa Linnaeus, Rosaceae
Description: with insects
Medium: engraving, hand-colored (intaglio facsimile)
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 45.5 x 34.5
Image Size: 37.5 x 27.5
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Notes: Similar to plate 31 in Maria Sibylla Merian, Dissertation sur la generation et les transformations des insectes de Surinam. Amsterdam, Jo. Oosterwyk, 1719; monogram HL (b.l.); P. Sluyter Sculp (b.r.).
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Accession Number: 2108
Artist Name: Unknown
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Title: Gummi guttae
Taxon:
Hevea ? Aublet, Euphorbiaceae
Description: with insects
Medium: engraving, hand-colored (intaglio facsimile)
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Dimensions (cm): 44 x 33.5
Image Size: 37 x 27
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Notes: Similar to plate 20 in Maria Sibylla Merian, Dissertation sur la generation et les transformations des insectes de Surinam. Amsterdam, Jo. Oosterwyk, 1719; monogram HL (b.l.); J. Mulder Sculp (b.r.).
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Accession Number: 2109
Artist Name: Unknown
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Taxon:
Jasminum Linnaeus, Oleaceae
Description: with insects
Medium: engraving, hand-colored (intaglio faacsimile)
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Dimensions (cm): 45.5 x 34.5
Image Size: 37.5 x 27.5
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Notes: Similar to plate 8 in Maria Sibylla Merian, Dissertation sur la generation et les transformations des insectes de Surinam. Amsterdam, Jo. Oosterwyk, 1719; monogram HL (b.l.); P. Sluyter Sculp (b.r.).
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Accession Number: 2110
Artist Name: Unknown
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Taxon:
Vitis Linnaeus, Vitaceae
Description: with insects
Medium: engraving, hand-colored (intaglio facsimile)
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Dimensions (cm): 49 x 38
Image Size: 38.5 x 29.5
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Notes: Similar to plate 34 in Maria Sibylla Merian, Dissertation sur la generation et les transformations des insectes de Surinam. Amsterdam, Jo. Oosterwyk, 1719; monogram HL (b.l.); J. Mulder Sculp (b.r.).
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Accession Number: 2111
Artist Name: Unknown
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Taxon:
Citrus Linnaeus, Rutaceae
Description: with insects
Medium: engraving, hand-colored (intaglio facsimile)
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Dimensions (cm): 48.5 x 38
Image Size: 40.5 x 27.5
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Notes: Similar to plate 52 in Maria Sibylla Merian, Dissertation sur la generation et les transformations des insectes de Surinam. Amsterdam, Jo. Oosterwyk, 1719; monogram HL (b.l.); J. Mulder Sculp (b.l.).
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Accession Number: 2112
Artist Name: Henderson, Peter
Life Span: (fl.1770-1830)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: The blue Egyptian water-lily
Taxon:
Nymphaea caerulea Savigny, Nymphaeaceae
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Medium: aquatint, stipple and line engraving, printed in color and finished by hand
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 54.8 x 41.8
Image Size: 51.7 x 39.8
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Date of Execution: 11 September 1804
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Published: Thornton, R. 1779-1807. New Illustrations of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus ... and the Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature. London: printed for the publisher by T. Bensley.
Printmaker: Joseph Constantine Stadler (fl.1749–1833)
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Accession Number: 2113
Artist Name: Henderson, Peter
Life Span: (fl.1770–1830)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Credit: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Title: The Winged Passion Flower
Taxon:
Passiflora quadrangularis Linnaeus, Passifloraceae
Description: Climbing passion flower in exotic landscape
Medium: Aquatint, stipple and line engraving, printed in color and finished by hand
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Dimensions (cm): 54.5 x 45.5 cm
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Date of Execution: 1802
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Published: Thornton, R. 1779-1807. New Illustrations of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus ... and the Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature. London: printed for the publisher by T. Bensley.
Printmaker: Warner
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Accession Number: 2114
Artist Name: Perger, Johann Peter (attr. to)
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Title: [illegible]
Taxon:
Tulipa Linnaeus, Liliaceae
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Medium: watercolor
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Dimensions (cm): 33.5 x 25
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