Fève De St. Ignace. [Jesuit Bean / Aguwason] [Strychnos ignati]

Description

stipple engraving printed in colour and with original hand colouring.

Botanical print from one of the most important French medicinal herbal publications of the 19th century, Chaumeton, ‘Flore Medicale’. The Jesuit Bean, a tree in the Loganiaceae family, is native to the Philippines, particularly in Samar. Pierre Jean François Turpin (1755-1840) is ranked among the greatest floral illustrators of the Napoleonic Era through collaborations with several naturalists like the botanist Pierre Antoine Poiteau (1766-1854), whom he met while in 1794 he was stationed in Haiti as a member of the French Army.