ABOUT THIS COLLECTION  
A French botanist and horticultural writer, Charles Antoine Lemaire’s (1800-1871) specialty was the cactus plant, about which he wrote several books.  These beautifully colored and detailed engravings come from the 1841 “Descriptive Iconography of Cacti” (Iconographie descriptive des cactées), which he hoped would be the ultimate illustrated monograph of cacti. He asked the painter Édouard Maubert to do the illustrations and planned for 200 images, but funding fell short, and only 12 were made. He also edited the major horticultural journals of the day in France and Belgium, raising the standards to include high-quality colorplates.
 
COLLECTION DETAILS
Series title: Iconography of Cacti
Series size: 8 artworks
Edition: Limited edition of 1000
Proof of Ownership: Certification on the Ethereum blockchain under the ERC1155 protocol. Each artwork is delivered privately and directly to collectors as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that guarrante proof of ownership.
Format: Pieces consist of PNG files sized 2160x3840 pixels - 150 dpi.
Medium: Illustration
Artwork materials:  Illustration paper
Contract Address: 0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e
ID: 2749212597480566...
 
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Édouard Maubert (1806-1879) was a prolific French natural history illustrator attached to the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. He contributed to botanical books and horticultural journals, working with the top botanists of the day, including Charles Antoine Lemaire. The Maubert-Lemaire collaboration on the “Descriptive Iconography of Cacti” added greatly to the artist’s reputation at the time for their beauty and accuracy, particularly for capturing the dimensional quality of the plants.
 
COLLECTION CREDITS
Historical curatorship: HARI - Historical Art Research Institute (HARI Editions)
Artwork: Édouard Maubert, Charles Antoine Lamaire, Aug. Dumenil, N. Remond
Year of original publication: 1841
Post-production: HARI - Historical Art Research Institute (HARI Editions)
Digital art supervisor: Marie-Lou Desmeules
Editorial: Braden Phillips
Historical research: Evangelos Rosios, Braden Phillips
Executive production: Victor Zabrockis
 
RIGHTS OVERVIEW
Source of artwork: Missouri Botanical Garden
Underlying work rights: PD Worldwide
Digital copyrights: No Additional Rights