Andromeda

Andromeda BENARD (Jacques Renaud) and DE SEVE (Jacques-Eustache) Copper engraving, watermarked paper, circa 1781 Published by Panckoucke, Agasse, Paris Sheet dimension: 30 x 22 cm Plate mark dimension: 25 x 20 cm Plate no. 365 depicting an andromeda (Andromeda Polyfolia) This plate belongs to the collection "Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières par une société de gens de lettres, de savants et d'artistes : précédée d'un vocabulaire universel, servant de table pour tout l'ouvrage ...". It appears in the section: "Decandria; Monogynia" of the chapter "Natural History, Botany." Very good condition, old coloring. Jacques Eustache de Sève (176?-1829) was a French draftsman, engraver, and illustrator of the 18th century in the disciplines of natural history, working under the direction of Jacques Renaud Benard (1731-1794) in the production of the plates for the encyclopédie méthodique.