Botanicals – Protea

Name: Botanicals - Protea
SKU: 4168
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Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm (1683-1741) Oleander, N. 756

SKU: 4168 Category: Weinmann's ‘Phytanthoza Iconographia’ Tags: botanicals, mezzotints, prints, weinmann

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Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm (1683-1741) Oleander, N. 756
H. Lentz and H.G. Neubauer, et al. Regensburg 1735-45

colour-printed mezzotint; overall 39 x 24,5 cm, plate 33 x21,5 cm. some slight foxing; verso blank; o/w exc. cond.

This print is from Weinmann’s ‘Phytanthoza Iconographia’, the first botanical book with colour-printed mezzotints! There are over 4000 plants depicted on 1025 plates which were engraved by Georg Dionysus Ehret (1708-1770), Bartholomäus Seuter (1678-1754), Johann Ridinger (1698-1767) and Johann Jakob Haid (1704-1767). Some of the plates are marked in the lower right corner with an “S” or an “H,” probably referring to the engravers Seuter or Haid.

Dunthorpe 327, Nissen 2126.

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