Description
Superb botanical engraving by Georg Dionysus Ehret, one of the greatest botanical artists of the Golden Period of Dutch botanical painting,
The
series of plants in the collection of Johann Wilhelm Weinmann who was
the director of the longest established pharmacy in Regensburg was one
of the most important and lavish florilegiums to be published.
Weinmann produced Phytanthosa Iconographia, with most of the engravings painted by Georg Dionysius Ehret.
From, Weinmann’s, Phytanthoza
iconographia; sive Conspectus aliquot millium, tam indigenarum quam
exoticarum, ex quatuor mundi partibus, longa annorum serie indefessoque
studio … collectarum plantarum, arborum, fruticum, florum fructuum,
fungorum.
References:
Dunthorne 327; Great Flower Books (1990) p.151, Nissen BBI 2126;
Dunthorne 327; Great Flower Books (1990) p.151, Nissen BBI 2126;
