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[Johan Wilhelm Weinmann] Joannes Guilielmus Weinmannus Dicasterij Ratisbonensis Assessor et Pharmacopola, natus Gardelegiæ MDCLXXXIII. d. XIII Mart. ætat LIV.
Hirschman pinx. J. Jac. Haid sculps. Aug. Vind.
[n.d., c.1737]
Mezzotint printed in blue. 320 x 200mm (12½ x 8"), large margins on 3 sides. Thread margin lower right.
Johan Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741), German apothecary and botanist, aged 54 so dating the portrait to 1737. Weinmann established a botanical garden in Regensburg and published botanical works, most notably the eight-volume florilegium 'Phytanthoza iconographia' (1737-45), illustrated with fine mezzotint plates. Engraving by Johann Jakob Haid (1704-67), one of the engravers employed on the florilegium, after a portrait by Johann Leonhard Hirschmann (1672-1750), artist and printmaker who studied in the studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller as a young man.
Wellcome 3142.
[Ref: 58811] £360.00
Hirschman pinx. J. Jac. Haid sculps. Aug. Vind.
[n.d., c.1737]
Mezzotint printed in blue. 320 x 200mm (12½ x 8"), large margins on 3 sides. Thread margin lower right.
Johan Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741), German apothecary and botanist, aged 54 so dating the portrait to 1737. Weinmann established a botanical garden in Regensburg and published botanical works, most notably the eight-volume florilegium 'Phytanthoza iconographia' (1737-45), illustrated with fine mezzotint plates. Engraving by Johann Jakob Haid (1704-67), one of the engravers employed on the florilegium, after a portrait by Johann Leonhard Hirschmann (1672-1750), artist and printmaker who studied in the studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller as a young man.
Wellcome 3142.
[Ref: 58811] £360.00