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Title
Les roses,
Summary
No flower painter has so linked his name and immortality with a single genus as has Redouté with the rose. This three-volume set is Redouté most famous work; its 170 hand-colored plates are the most frequently reproduced of all botanical images. Pierre Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) was from a Belgian family of painters, and himself served, under various titles, as drawing master to the queens and princesses of France for half a century. Royal or aristocratic patronage was essential for the production of his many costly and lavishly illustrated works.
The draftmanship of Redouté was both elegant and botanically accurate; for most viewers he had captured the rose. Shown here is one of only five special copies, printed in large folio format, on vélin paper, with a double set of plates, plain and colored, retouched by Redouté himself.
Contributor Names
Redouté, Pierre Joseph, 1759-1840.
Thory, Claude-Antoine, 1759-1827.
Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
Paris, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot, 1817-24.
Subject Headings
-  Roses
Notes
-  All plates in colored and uncolored state; first plate in 3 states.
-  In ms., on half title of v. 1: No. I. Je nay fait tirer que cinq exemplaire de mes Roses sur ce paper et de ce forma avec les figure en noire et en couleure, dont celui-cy et le nomero premier. Signed: Redouté.
-  "Bibliotheca botanica rosarum": v. 1, p. [143]-156.
-  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1892
-  Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1943-1975.
-  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
-  LAC scc 2018-12-03 update (1 card)
-  LAC ecr 2018-12-17 review
Medium
3 v. 170 plates, port. 46 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
QK495.R78 R248
Digital Id
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Rosenwald.1892v1.1
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Rosenwald.1892v2.1
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Rosenwald.1892v3.1
Library of Congress Control Number
50049695
Online Format
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LCCN Permalink
https://lccn.loc.gov/50049695
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Chicago citation style:

Redouté, Pierre Joseph, Claude-Antoine Thory, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Les Roses. Paris, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot, -24, 1817. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/50049695/.

APA citation style:

Redouté, P. J., Thory, C. & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1817) Les Roses. Paris, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot, -24. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/50049695/.

MLA citation style:

Redouté, Pierre Joseph, Claude-Antoine Thory, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Les Roses. Paris, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot, -24, 1817. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/50049695/>.

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