Giorgio Gallesio

Giorgio Gallesio (Italian, 1772-1839) was a botanist and researcher of the 18th and 19th centuries.

• Sold as a set of 6.
• Hand-colored plates of grapes, printed in color and finished by hand.
• Finest Italian work on fruits, remarkable for the delicate and intense coloring.
• The plates appeared in 41 parts, and Domenico del Pino, Antonio Serantoni and Isabella

Bozzolini were among as many as 20 artists responsible for the designs.

• An almost equal number of engravers were involved; Giuseppe Pera, Giuseppe Carocci, Tommaso Nasi and Francesco Corsi were also well-represented.
• Gallesio conducted experiments in his fruit garden in Savona, later quoted by Charles Darwin to illustrate the development of varieties.
• Although he died before completion of this work, he had left pre-eminent contributions to the study of Italian fruit.
• Framed and glazed.