Weinmann Radish Antique Print. Daucus Radice. c1740

by Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm

Rare antique illustration of a radish for "Phytanthosa Iconographia" circa 1740.

Original copperplate engraving with etched outline and mezzotint interior tones by Johann-Jacob Haid (1704-1767). One of the earliest examples of colour-printing with watercolour from a single plate (hand-finished). Published between 1737-1745 for Phytanthoza Iconographia by Regensburg apothecary Johann Willhelm Weinmann (1683-1741).