Daucus Sativus, Daucus Palustris, Daucus Radice. Weinmann Carrot c1740
by Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm
Antique print. Early Carrots were red and purple.
Original copperplate engraving by Johann-Jacob Haid (1704-1767), with etched outline and mezzotint colour-printed interior (and 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).
Size of page 38 x 23cm (15 x 9 inches). This rare 18th century engraving is in clean condition but there are a couple of printer's crease at base.
Stock Number: apWein458Price: $275.00