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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
Georgius Whitefield, Artium Magister, Verbi divini Minister inter Anglos maxime notius.
Jenkin pinx. J.E. Haid sc. 1783.
J.J. Haid et filious exc. A.V.
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 140 x 225mm (5½ x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate and laid on album paper, mounted on card with two other portraits of Whitefield. Slight loss to left of title.
A head and shoulders portrait of minister George Whitefield (1714-1770), in wig and gown. The other two portraits are engraved portraits by Picot after Hone and Trotter after Russell.
[Ref: 61981] £420.00 (£504.00 incl.VAT)
Jenkin pinx. J.E. Haid sc. 1783.
J.J. Haid et filious exc. A.V.
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 140 x 225mm (5½ x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate and laid on album paper, mounted on card with two other portraits of Whitefield. Slight loss to left of title.
A head and shoulders portrait of minister George Whitefield (1714-1770), in wig and gown. The other two portraits are engraved portraits by Picot after Hone and Trotter after Russell.
[Ref: 61981] £420.00 (£504.00 incl.VAT)
No.32.
J.J. Haid et filius excud: Aug. Vind: J.
Mezzotint. Plate 218 x 162mm. 8½ x 6½".
A young woman with bonnet. A flower is attached to the lapel at the top of the corset.
[Ref: 12982] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
J.J. Haid et filius excud: Aug. Vind: J.
Mezzotint. Plate 218 x 162mm. 8½ x 6½".
A young woman with bonnet. A flower is attached to the lapel at the top of the corset.
[Ref: 12982] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
The Young Musicians From the Original Picture of the same size, Painted by Scalcken, in the Collection of John Darker Esq.r
Scalcken Pinx.t / Joh. Godfrid Haid fecit
Published by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London 1764.
Mezzotint, platemark 435 x 280mm (17 x 11"). Thread margins; false margins added; creases and tear at bottom; rubbed; 'JC Smith 824' verso.
Genre subject after Dutch artist Godfried Schalken, engraved by Johann Gottfried Haid (1714-1776), one of a German family of artists. In the early 1760s Haid worked in London for the influential publisher John Boydell, engraving pictures by artists also including Rembrandt and Reynolds. He later founded a school of mezzotint engraving in Vienna. This impression from the collection of John Chaloner Smith (1827-95), author of an authoritative four-volume catalogue of British mezzotint portraits.
Le Blanc 41; Ex: collection of John Chaloner Smith, and subsequently the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34661] £380.00
Scalcken Pinx.t / Joh. Godfrid Haid fecit
Published by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London 1764.
Mezzotint, platemark 435 x 280mm (17 x 11"). Thread margins; false margins added; creases and tear at bottom; rubbed; 'JC Smith 824' verso.
Genre subject after Dutch artist Godfried Schalken, engraved by Johann Gottfried Haid (1714-1776), one of a German family of artists. In the early 1760s Haid worked in London for the influential publisher John Boydell, engraving pictures by artists also including Rembrandt and Reynolds. He later founded a school of mezzotint engraving in Vienna. This impression from the collection of John Chaloner Smith (1827-95), author of an authoritative four-volume catalogue of British mezzotint portraits.
Le Blanc 41; Ex: collection of John Chaloner Smith, and subsequently the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34661] £380.00