#Pancrace Bessa

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Anemone hepatica (1836) by Pancrace Bessa (France, 1772 - 1846)

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Amaryllis purpurea, 1836 (hand-coloured engraving) by Pancrace Bessa (1836, hand-coloured engraving)

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Plant studies by Pancrace Bessa (1772-1846)

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Quince fruit and foliage, Pancrace Bessa.

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Pancrace Bessa, tuberose

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A rosebush

Pancrace Bessa (1772-1846)

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Superb Pink (Dianthus superbus) Pancrace Bessa (1772-1846, French)

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Amaryllis purpurea, 1836 (hand-coloured engraving) by Pancrace Bessa hand-coloured engraving, 1836 Private Collection

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Study of a Spray of Snapdragons

Pancrace Bessa

Watercolor with touches of gouache over pencil

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Pancrace Bessa (1772-1846)

Red, pink and white poppies, cornflowers centaurea and a pink rose

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Flowering branch by Pancrace Bessa  (1772–1835).

Graphite, watercolour, gouache, gum arabic.

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Pancrace Bessa 

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A Rosebush, Pancrace Bessa

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Flora and Sylva

To celebrate Arbor Day, we present these exquisite hand-colored lithographic plates of flowering trees from another important set donated to us by Lynde Bradley Uihlein -- the 1865 edition of François André Michaux’s landmark work, The North American Sylva, in five volumes including Thomas Nuttall’s 2-volume continuation, published in Philadelphia by Rice, Rutter & Co. The entire set includes 277 hand-colored plates, many by the Belgian painter and botanist Pierre-Joseph Redouté and the French naturalist artist Pancrace Bessa.

First published in French in 1810 and translated into English in 1817, Michaux’s Sylva was the result of ten years of research in North America, and included 156 plates. The continuation by the noted American botanist and ornithologist Thomas Nutall was first published from 1842 to 1849, and added another 121 hand-colored plates.

We also hold the 1857-59 Michaux/Nuttall in five volumes, published in Philadelphia by Rice & A. N. Hart.

View other posts from the Uihlein donation of important botanical and horticultural books.

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Chrysanthèmes mauves et Lychnis Chalcedonia rouge Pancrace Bessa (French, 1772–1835)

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Dubreuil after Pancrace Bessa, French Rose (Rosa Gallica), 1801-19 (source).