PIERRE JEAN FRANÇOIS TURPIN (FRENCH, 1775–1840). Wild Indigo. 1808–1827. email The Bodmer/Maximilian collaboration produced a

The Bodmer/Maximilian collaboration produced a record of their expedition that is incontestably the finest early graphic study of the Plains tribes

and Winslow Homer in the last decades of the nineteenth century

but his work was deeply inspired by the Connecticut countryside

Huard possessed a passion for travel and published illustrated books of his voyages

and other fanciful details that were common in maps of the period

PIERRE JEAN FRANÇOIS TURPIN (FRENCH, 1775–1840). Wild Indigo. 1808–1827. email The Bodmer/Maximilian collaboration produced aPIERRE JEAN FRANOIS TURPIN (FRENCH, 17751840) Indigofera [Anil] [today known as Indigofera suffruticosa, Wild indigo, also known as indigo, Guatamala indigo, ail, ail de pasto, and ti cafe] Preparatory drawing for F. R. Tussac, Flore des Antilles, ou histoire gnrale botanique, rurale et economique des vgtaux indignes des Antilles. Paris: chez lauteur, F. Schoell et Hautel, 18081827. Vol. 2, Pl. 9 Watercolor and pencil on paper Inscribed Indigofera