D/ van der Smissen pinxit J.J. Haid sculps et excud A.V. [c.1720]
Mezzotint, platemark 310 x 195mm (12¼ x 7¾"). Small margins.
Christoph Jacob Trew (1695-1769), solicitor and physician whose passion for botany led him to sponsor the publication of some of the most important botanical works of the eighteenth century, most notably the posthumously-published 'Plantae Selectae' (1773). Portrait of Trew at his desk with plant specimens, after Domenicus van der Smissen (1704-60).
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