Antique spurge, Euphorbia antiquorum, showing flowers, seeds and thorns. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Dubois from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (1775~1840) was one of the three giants of French botanical art of the era alongside Pierre Joseph Redoute and Pancrace Bessa.


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