Oval portrait of Sebastian Vaillant, French botanist, author of Botanicum Parisiense, 1669-1722. Engraving by James Hopwood after a portrait by Aubriet. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Dr. Robert John Thornton’s New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, the Temple of Flora, London, 1800.

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