Johann Weinmann Framed Engraving, Circa 1745

Johann Weinmann Framed Engraving, #645, Johann Jakob Haid, Circa 1740.

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The botanical engraving is within a red lacquer frame highlighted in gold with lattice and flowers and a gold leaf to each corner.

Provenance: The Piere Hotel Room 901 (old label).

Reference: (http://www.bergbook.com/htdocs/Cache819.htm).

Original copper engraving, printed in colors, and finished by hand. Published 1734-45 in Regensburg in the great botanical work Phytanthoza Iconographia. This was for the first time, that this technique of colour printing was used highly successfully on the continent in a botanical series.

Originally this technique was founded by Taylor in Great Britain. Among the artists in this enormous botanical series were Ehret, Haid, and Seutter from Augsburg. On all plates, we find their individual initials in the lower right corner other than the initial engraving done by Ehret.

(http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/mycology/1737.htm).

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683 - 1741) was born in Gardelegen, Germany on March 13, 1683. He settled in Regensburg in 1710 as a pharmacist's assistant and in 1712 was able to purchase his own apothecary shop.

He flourished in his business affairs and this success allowed him to indulge in his great love for botany. He established a botanical garden in Regensburg published a Catalogus Alphabetico ordine exhibens Pharmica in 1723.

In 1737-1745 Weinmann published Phytanthoza iconographia. His great work comprised eight folios with 1025 hand-coloured engravings of several thousand plants. Among the artists employed to work on Phytanthoza was Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770).

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