After Pierre Jean François Turpin, Pierre-Antoine Poiteau

Pierre-Antoine Poiteau (French, 1766–1854) and Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (French, 1775–1840).

• Sold as a set of 8.
• Eight fine stipple-engraved plates printed in color and finished by hand.
• From one of the finest and rarest books on fruit.
• This series takes its title from Duhamel's Traité of 1768; it is an independent work and was intended as Poiteau and Turpin's homage to an earlier work.
• A team of over 20 engravers was involved.
• The color printing was by Langlois, the great French color-printer who supervised much of Redouté's work.
• Framed and glazed.