Margueritte Olive Simon Alexandre Ami Ganjeou [sic] Bonplond [sic]

Bust silhouette portrait shows a man, perhaps the son of Aim Jacques Alexandre Goujaud Bonpland (1773-1858), facing left. Bonpland, along with Alexandre von Humboldt, toured South America identifying and classifying plants, before returning to France in 1804.Inscribed above image: Washington June. 12 - 1804. 40,000 plants of S.A. preserved.(DLC/PP-44431)