Notebook Plants and Vegetables

Since 1778 and its first catalogue, the Vilmorin-Andrieux publishing house has published extraordinary Albums for which it employed around fifteen painters trained in naturalist drawing at the Jardin des Plantes. Published between 1851 and 1861, this large folio of 28 plates of rustic flowers, vegetables, and fodder plants is the fruit of the fine and precise line of the watercolourist Elisa-Honorine Champin (1807-1871), assisted by Josephine Coutance.