P.&L. Stroobant and others: 21 floral chromolithographs from Charles Lemaire-L’Illustration - 1860

P.&L. Stroobant and others: 21 floral chromolithographs from Charles Lemaire-L’Illustration Horticole and other 19th century Botanical Magazines (1860-1894)

Plate 1 (Chromolithographic, 26x16.5 cm) is from La Belgique Horticole, a Belgian botanical magazine published between 1851 to 1885. This plate is from 1881 and the artist is P. Stroobant.
Clean, bright colours, very good condition.

Plates 2 and 3 are from Revue Horticole, a long-lasting French botanical magazine. This magazine ran from 1829 to 1922.
The plates were made in 1893 and 1894 by artists L. Descamps-Sabouret and De Maih.
26,5 x 18 cm, the 1893 plate has minor foxing. Overall very good condition

Plates 4 to 21 are from L’Illustration Horticole. This Belgian magazine appeared from 1854 to 1896. From 1854 to 1870 the editor of the magazine was Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800-1871), a famous and productive French botanist and botanical artist. The owner and publisher of L’Illustration was Ambroise Verschaffelt, member of the famous Belgian family of horticulturalists. Many of the paintings are made by Belgian botanical artists P. and L. Stroobant who used plants from the Horto Verschaffelt collection as model.
The 18 plates are from various editions from 1860 to 1882 and therefore have various dimensions (mostly 25,5x17,5 cm). Some plates have some minor foxing, as the photos show, but the overall condition is very good.