Rhodora Canadensis (Rhodore de Canada) (Rhodora)
Sophie Giacomelli Janinet, French, 1786 - 1813
after Pierre Joseph Redoute, French, 1759 - 1840
1806
Color stipple engraving on wove paper
Plate: 11 3/4 × 8 7/8 in. (29.8 × 22.5 cm)
Sheet: 16 1/8 × 10 1/4 in. (41 × 26 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Harold Goddard Rugg, Class of 1906
PR.957.204.2
Portfolio / Series Title
from Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Traité des arbres et arbustes que l’on cultive en France en pleine terre, vol. 3 (Paris: Didot, 1806), no. 53
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower left: P. J. Redoute pinx.; lower right: M.lle. Janinet Sculp.; inscribed, in plate, lower left: RHODORA Candadensis; lower right: RHODORE de Canada. page. 214; upper center: T.5.No.53.
Provenance
Collected by Harold Goddard Rugg (1883-1957, Class of 1906), Hanover, New Hampshire; given by his Estate to present collection, 1957.
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