This illustration celebrates the Violet-Variegated Orange, a variety of orange tree with extraordinary botanical manifestations: its spring shoots simultaneously bear red and white flowers, producing violet and yellow fruits respectively.
Fascinated by this contrast, first noted in 1810, Parisian botanists saw it as a natural enigma. The remarkably intense foliage and winged petioles complete the portrait of a singular variety of great graphic finesse.
Taken from Poiteau and Turpin's Traité des Arbres Fruitiers (1807-1835), this plate embodies the marriage between scientific precision and 19th-century botanical drawing art.
Printing, media, shipping
Each poster is printed with 12-color giclée printing, the benchmark for art studios for rendering fine tones, subtle gradients, and the most delicate botanical details.
200 g/m² paper weight, soft matte finish, 0.26 mm thickness: a rendering close to the original engraving, clear, glare-free, designed for hanging.
Printed on FSC certified paper, printed individually to order.
