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Redouté collaborated with the greatest botanists of his day and participated in nearly fifty publications depicting both the familiar flowers of the French court and plants from places as distant as Japan, America, South Africa, and
Australia. He worked from live plants rather than
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Traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en France, par
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in London and a few were acquired by the Hunt
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739:(1817 from The Warnock Library). Taschen has also published this as part of its 25th Anniversary series.
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of flowers" and has been called the greatest botanical illustrator of all time.
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