Cichorium hortense [art original]
Contributors: Mattioli, Pietro Andrea, 1500-1577.; Meyerpeck, Wolfgang.; Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782 (autograph)
Published: 1562
Language: lat
Subjects: Chicory -- Illustrations
Other titles: Cichorium sauvage; Mattioli woodblock
Notes: One of a series of woodblocks (pearwood) cut by Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck for Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Herbarz, printed in Prague by J. Melantrich in 1562; used again in a German translation printed in Prague in 1563; and in the Latin edition printed by Valgrisi in Venice in 1565.  Cf. The Mattioli woodblocks, 1989.

With label on verso in the hand of Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau: Cichorium sauvage.

Cf. Hunt botanical cat., v. 1, 90.

In box.