Henriette Antoinette Vincent

Studies of fruits and flowers, painted from nature. [With:] The elements of flower and fruit painting; illustrated with engravings. London: R. Ackermann, [1813]-1814

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 12 original parts, folio (375 x 300mm.), 47 plates after Vincent by Busby, 23 of the plates stipple-engraved, printed in colors by McQueen, and finished by hand (the other plates printed in outline or else in "flat" colour), original printed wrappers, preserved in a cloth clamshell case, without frontispiece; sold not subject to return due to uncertain collation

A rare botanical work based on Vincent's 1810 Études de Fleurs et de F꧟ruits. This copy is bibliographically complex – a slip in part 7 advises the subscriber to bind the parts into two works, and two title-pages are issued (in parts 7 and 12). The slip also says that “on or after the 20th July each Subscriber, by producing this acknowledgement, will be entitled to the Frontispiece for the Studies from Nature”. The presence of the slip in the part, and the absence of a frontispiece, seems to indicate that the first owner of this work did not take up this offer.

Henriette Antoinette Vincent née Rideau du Sal (1786-1834) married Ambrose Vincent who became superintendent of the Empress Josephine's garden at Malmaison and later at Compiegᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚne. She was a student of both van Spaendonck and Redoute, and exhibited frequently at the Paris Salon.

LITERATURE:

Dunthorne 320 and 321; Great Flower Books, p.79; Nissen BBI 2067 and 2068