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Last Name Plée

Given Name Auguste

alt. Names A. P. ;

Marriage

Children botanist artist François Plée (18xx-1xxx) ;

Year born 1787 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe

Year died 1825

Place of death Fort Royale, Martinique

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education botany

Country of Activity Guadeloupe

Worked for Jacques Julien Houtou de la Billardière (1755-1834): Novae Hollandiae Plantarum (1804-1806) ; A. Michaux: Flora boreali Americana (1803) ; F. A. Michaux Hist des chênes Amériques (1801) ;

Patronage Muséum National de l'Histoire Naturelle Paris ;

Collaborators artist P. J . Redouté ; artist H. J. Redouté ; engraver Sellier ;

Techniques botanical drawing and engraving ;

Sample(s) http://plantillustrations.org/artist.php?id_artist=1653&mobile=0 ;

Archival sources Sketchbook 1821: Princeton Univ. Rare Books ; https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/plee-auguste.html ;

Published sources Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 ; Blunt & Stearn 1994 ;

other On American Expedition.

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