Hand-Colored Botanical Engraved & Mezzotint Plate Lovely Folio Hand-Colored Engraved Botanical, approx. 9 1/2" x 15 1/2".

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann had-colored engraved & mezzotint plates from Phytanthoza Iconographia (1735-45) were the first botanical prints to use the color-printed mezzotint process successfully. Printed in color and finished by hand. This work represents a major advance in botanical illustration. Several hundred of the illustrations were drawn by . Georg Dioysius Ehret, the balance by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann. Then engraved by Bartholomaus Seuter, Johann Ridinger and Johann Jakob Haid.

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1739 CANNABIS PRINT COVER PAGE