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Johann Wilhelm Weinmann

Johann Weinmann Pair of Botanical Engravings with Plants in Pots

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Documentation

Signed

Origin

Germany

Period

18th Century

Materials

paper

Dimensions

W.	14.75 in;	H.	19.75 in;	D.	1.1 in;
W.	37.47 cm;	H.	50.17 cm;	D.	2.79 cm;

Condition

Good.

Description

Johann Weinmann Pair of Botanical Engravings with Plants in Pots,
Engraver is signed Ehret,
Circa 1740.
(NY8755C-nirr).

A fine pair of Johann Weinmann engravings within modern decoupage botanical frames,

Dimensions: 19 3/4 inches x 14 3/4 inches x 1 1/8 inches. (50.17cm high x 37.47cm wide).

(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 Pharmaca in 1723.

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

Styles / Movements

Old Master, Trompe l'oeil

Dealer Reference Number

NY8755C-nirr

Incollect Reference Number

428082