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Victor Claro
Empreintes de plantes er de feuillages / Prints of plants and foliage, 1901
13160-BK
14 1/4 x 8 3/4 in. (36.4 x 22.5 cm)
Price Upon Request
Victor Claro
Empreintes de plantes er de feuillages / Prints of plants and foliage , 1901
13160-BK
(36.4 x 22.5 cm)
Unique manuscript In-folio, brown half-sorrow, 4-nerve back decorated with golden florets, linings, and guards with marbled paper. Binding of the time. Dedication in ink on inside cover. " Souvenie Uncle Claro" Collection composed of 239 plant nature prints on fabric (canvas, cotton and linen), printed in different ways; negative on a pink, gray green or yellow background, sometimes with a yellow sheet of paper behind. Sometimes on cloth with already existing patters/stripes. Unlike nature prints made in the 18th century for botanical purposes, these prints are the result of a cloth dye on which a pinned plant specimen is applied, the negative parts accurately drawing the silhouette of the plant looking almost 3-dimentional. In the album, the precision with which each collected specimen is rendered as well as the attention to detail appear as a praise for the grace of these plant entities. More than a simple botanical documentation, Victor Claro translates his taste for this field by expressive and aesthetic symbols. It is both a botanical work built for scientific purposes, but also an artistic object where the sensitivity of the author is visible. Fruit of the passion of Victor Claro, collector from Flanders identified by a manuscript ex-dono, this collection with an aesthetic and patrimonial dimension shows a rich variety of wild plants
Price Upon Request
Unique manuscript In-folio, brown half-sorrow, 4-nerve back decorated with golden florets, linings, and guards with marbled paper. Binding of the time. Dedication in ink on inside cover. " Souvenie Uncle Claro"
Collection composed of 239 plant nature prints on fabric (canvas, cotton and linen), printed in different ways; negative on a pink, gray green or yellow background, sometimes with a yellow sheet of paper behind. Sometimes on cloth with already existing patters/stripes.
Unlike nature prints made in the 18th century for botanical purposes, these prints are the result of a cloth dye on which a pinned plant specimen is applied, the negative parts accurately drawing the silhouette of the plant looking almost 3-dimentional.
In the album, the precision with which each collected specimen is rendered as well as the attention to detail appear as a praise for the grace of these plant entities. More than a simple botanical documentation, Victor Claro translates his taste for this field by expressive and aesthetic symbols. It is both a botanical work built for scientific purposes, but also an artistic object where the sensitivity of the author is visible.
Fruit of the passion of Victor Claro, collector from Flanders identified by a manuscript ex-dono, this collection with an aesthetic and patrimonial dimension shows a rich variety of wild plants