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Paris: a woman cooking chestnuts in a flat pan over a small brazier. Coloured aquatint with etching, 1805.

Common beech (Fagus sylvatica) and Spanish chestnut (Castanea sativa): leafy and flowering twigs. Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.

Spanish chestnut tree (Castanea sativa) and cypress tree (Cupressus). Soft-ground etching with aquatint by J. Laporte, c. 1796, after himself.

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Castanea

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Common beech (Fagus sylvatica) and Spanish chestnut (Castanea sativa): leafy and flowering twigs. Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.

Paris: a woman cooking chestnuts in a flat pan over a small brazier. Coloured aquatint with etching, 1805.

Spanish chestnut tree (Castanea sativa) and cypress tree (Cupressus). Soft-ground etching with aquatint by J. Laporte, c. 1796, after himself.