Echinops, Sea Urchin
1781
Echinops BENARD (Jacques Renaud) and DE SEVE (Jacques-Eustache) Copper engraving, watermarked paper, circa 1781 Published by Panckoucke, Agasse, Paris Sheet dimension: 29.5 x 21 cm Plate mark dimension: 25 x 19.5 cm Plate No. 719 depicting an Echinops or "sea urchin". 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: "Syngenesia: polygamy, separate" 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, under the direction of Jacques Renaud Benard (1731-1794) in the context of creating the plates for the encyclopédie méthodique.
Echinops Copper engraving, watermarked paper, circa 1781 Beautiful inking, good condition and fine margins.


















