Title: Louis XIV's botanical engravings /
Authors: Renaux, Alain.
Publisher: Lund Humphries,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Académie royale des sciences (France) History; Musée du Louvre.; Académie royale des sciences (France); Botanical illustration France History; Engraving, French; Botany France History; Science publishing France History; Plants in art.; Flowers; Plants; Engraving and Engravings; Botany history; History, 17th Century; France
Abstract: "Louis XIV's Botanical Engravings contains a collection of around sixty of the watercolour engravings produced during the reign of Louis XIV, which are now preserved in the Louvre and the French National Museum of Natural History. These exquisite illustrations allow us to familiarise ourselves with some of the plants brought back from distant lands, and to understand the contribution they made to scientific research, as well as their beneficial properties."-- Back cover.