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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

French botanist (1656-1708)

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Botany

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Images by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

27 images from works
  • Yarrow (Achillea santolina): flowering plant with leaf and floral segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.
  • Heliotrope (Heliotropium): flowering plant with separate flowers. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.
  • A plant (Alyssum vesicaria): fruiting plant, leaves and fruit. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.
  • Historia plantarum generalis. Species hactenus editas aliasque insuper multas noviter inventas & descriptas complectens ... / [John Ray].
  • A compleat history of druggs divided into three classes, vegetable, animal and mineral : with their use in physick, chymistry, pharmacy, and several other arts, illustrated ... / written by Monsieur Pomet ; to which is added what is further observable on the same subject from Messrs. Lemery, and Tournefort ... Done into English from the originals [by Joseph Browne].
  • Collection des plantes usuelles, curieuses, et etŕangères, selon les systèmes de Mrs. Tournefort et Linnaeus. Tirées du Jardin du Roi, & de celui de MM. les Apothicaires de Paris, gravées & imprimées en couleur, & de leur forme naturelle, avec leurs fleurs, leurs fruits, leurs graines & leurs racines d'usages / par M. Gautier Dagoty].
  • A plant (Gundelia tournefortii): flowering stem and floral segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.
  • Oriental poppy (Papaver orientale): flowering stem and floral segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.
  • Skull-cap or helmet flower (Scutellaria orientalis): flowering plant and floral segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.
  • Goat's thorn (Astragalus christianus): flowering stem and floral segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.
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Images featuring Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

8 images from works
  • Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. Stipple engraving by Holl.
  • Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, with a vignette of his taxonomic system. Stipple engraving by J. Hopwood, 1802.
  • Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. Stipple engraving by A. Tardieu.
  • Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. Oil painting, ca. 1900 (?).
  • Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. Line engraving.
  • Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. Oil painting, ca. 1900 (?).
  • Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. Line engraving by A. Marchi.
  • Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. Line engraving.

Works from the collections

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50 works

    • Books

    Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs de Paris : avec leur usage dans la medecine.

    Joseph Pitton de Tournefort | Date: 1698
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    A plant (Alyssum vesicaria): fruiting plant, leaves and fruit. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.

    Claude Aubriet | Date: [1718] | Reference: 20859i
    • Books

    Historia plantarum generalis. Species hactenus editas aliasque insuper multas noviter inventas & descriptas complectens ... / [John Ray].

    John Ray | Date: 1693-1704
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    • Online

    An asparagus plant (Asparagus aphyllus): plant with floral segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.

    Claude Aubriet | Date: [1718] | Reference: 20847i
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    Medlar (Mespilus germanica): fruiting stem, leaf and fruit segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.

    Claude Aubriet | Date: [1718] | Reference: 20869i
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Frequent collaborators

Claude Aubriet
Pierre Pomet

Related topics

Plants
Botany - History
Botany
Plants, Medicinal
Cruciferae
Materia Medica
Botany, Medical
Paris
Turkey

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