French Tree Prints from Botanique

Background:

These detailed lithograph Tree prints are from the First Edition of Botanique, a French botanical reference focusing on the "Natural History of Plant Families".

This work is based on the plant classifications developed by the French botanist Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797-1853).   He received a degree of Doctor in Medicine with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae (Poinsettia family).  In 1826 he succeeded his father at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, and later became a professor of organography of plants.  Organography is the study of the parts of plants as "organs", and the relationship between the different organs and their functions.