Print of the Day - Indian Mallow - Beautiful Botanicals for the Collector

 As I've mentioned before having beautiful prints of flowers and plants in your home is like bringing the outside indoors.  If you're looking to brighten up your decor or simply love collecting botanical prints then the work of Pierre Joseph Buchoz is worth considering. Buchoz, a physician and naturalist, is now best known as a compiler and book publisher of enormous energy. The complete list of his works runs to over 500, the majority of them now very rare.  The print below is among 1200 plates from the set of a broad variety of botanicals by Buchoz (also spelled Buc'hoz), an extremely prolific author of botanical books in the latter half of the 18th century.

Above: Rare botanical print Indian Mallow Abutilon indicum on 18th century hand laid paper from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Herbier Artificiel Botanical Print 1783.

Buchoz was a physician & lawyer by training, as well as a passionate naturalist. He was physician to many prominent individuals, including the King of Poland, the brother of the King of France & the Duke of Artois. He was an enthusiastic and prolific publisher of botanical works including Herbier Artificiel, Histoire du Regne Vegetal, Histoire Universelle, Le Jardin d’Eden & Collections Precieuse et Eluminees des Fleurs. Early on, he recognized the significance of Japanese & Chinese drawing techniques, and was the first to publish drawings by Asian artists, a good century before the passion for the Orient overtook Europe.

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