Currency Exchange
Weinmann, Cardomom spices 18th century antique print c1740.

Weinmann, Cardomom spices 18th century antique print c1740.

by Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm

Short and long, Cardomo Cardamomum minus, Cardamomum longian vel medium.

Original copperplate engraving by J. Seutrum, with etched outline and colour-printed interior (hand-finished). This is one of the earliest examples of colour-printing with watercolour from a single plate - published from 1737 to 1745 for Phytanthoza Iconographia, a survey of thousands of native and foreign plants, by Regensburg apothecary Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741).

Weinmann created a botanical garden in Regensburg, published the Catalogus Alphabetico ordine exhibens Pharmaca (Alphabetical Pharmaceutical Catalogue) in 1723, and contributed botanical notes as 'Observationes und Anmerkungen' in the Breslauer Sammlungen.  His grandest achievement was his Phytanthoza Iconographia, a florilegium with more than 1,000 engravings of several thousand plants and trees. Weinmann employed a number of capable illustrators, including Georg Dionysus Ehret (1708-1770).

Rare 18th century engraving in fine condition. Page size: 385 x 240mm (15.25 x 9.5 inches).

Stock Number: apWein306Price: $385.00

Quantity