Weinmann Gourds - c 1737-45 - Original mezzotint

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Exceptionally beautiful 18th century color-printed mezzotint of Gourds with hand-finishing from Johann Wilhelm Weinmann’s Phytanthoza Iconographia.  Double size: 15 1/4 x 17 3/4'' -This is one of only a very few double folio sized images in the entire series. Center fold as issued.

This was the first botanical series to use color-printed mezzotint successfully. Although he was never acknowledged, nearly half the drawings of this series are by Georg Dionysius Ehret and represent his first published botanical illustrations. Engraved by Bartholomäus Seuter, Johann Ridinger and Johann J. Haid. A most complete, interesting and valuable record of the plants cultivated early in the 18th century. 

This superb work represents an impressive technical and artistic advance of botanical publication.

Completed in Ratisbon, c. 1737-45.

Shipped unmatted

 

  • Inventory# W-167
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