PETIVERIA Linn. H. Cliff. 141.
Prints and Maps
Johann Jakob Haid and Johann Elias Haid (Engraver and colorist)
Georg Dionysis Ehret (Designer)
Christoph Jacob Trew (Publisher)
Nuremberg, Germany, Europe
1750-1773
Ink; Watercolor; Gouache; Gilt; Paper (laid)
Etched, Engraved, Line engraved, Hand colored, Painted
1978.0038.002
Object Number1978.0038.002 |
Print (Etching)
PETIVERIA Linn. H. Cliff. 141.
Prints and Maps
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Special Fund for Collection Objects
Johann Jakob Haid and Johann Elias Haid (Engraver and colorist)
Georg Dionysis Ehret (Designer)
1708-1770
Christoph Jacob Trew, a physician and botanist, was Ehret's primary patron publishing both Plantae Selectae, one of the finest ever 18th-century botanical sets in which these prints were issued. Trew had for a number of years been an admirer of Ehret's work. While Ehret was working as an artist for a banker in Regensburg, Germany, he met Trew, and the two remained friends and associates for life.
Ehret developed his gardening skills in Heidelberg in his youth, practicing drawing in his spare time. He moved to London in the late 1730s, establishing himself as a teacher of flower painting and botany. He painted the recently introduced exotic plants at the Chelsea Physic Garden. By 1742, Trew wrote to a friend that he already had acquired over 100 botanical studies of exotic plants by Ehret. After considerable discussion, in 1748, Johann Jacob Haid from Augsburg and his son Johann Elias Haid (1739-1809) agreed to produce the engravings from Ehret's drawings.
Christoph Jacob Trew (Publisher)
1695-1769
Christoph Jacob Trew, a physician and botanist, was Ehret's primary patron publishing both Plantae Selectae, one of the finest ever 18th-century botanical sets in which these prints were issued. Trew had for a number of years been an admirer of Ehret's work. While Ehret was working as an artist for a banker in Regensburg, Germany, he met Trew, and the two remained friends and associates for life.
Ehret developed his gardening skills in Heidelberg in his youth, practicing drawing in his spare time. He moved to London in the late 1730s, establishing himself as a teacher of flower painting and botany. He painted the recently introduced exotic plants at the Chelsea Physic Garden. By 1742, Trew wrote to a friend that he already had acquired over 100 botanical studies of exotic plants by Ehret. After considerable discussion, in 1748, Johann Jacob Haid from Augsburg and his son Johann Elias Haid (1739-1809) agreed to produce the engravings from Ehret's drawings.
Nuremberg, Germany, Europe
1750-1773
1. Inscription; Lower right; J. Jac. Haid, excud. Aug. Vind.
Botanical illustration; Still life; Book illustration
Ink; Watercolor; Gouache; Gilt; Paper (laid)
Etched, Engraved, Line engraved, Hand colored, Painted
19.6 (H) , 13.4 (W) , 13.6 (Image H) , 9.6 (Image W)
49.7 (H) , 34.1 (W) , 13.6 (Image H) , 9.6 (Image W)
Plate H: 13.9 in. (35.4 cm). Plate W: 10.1 in. (25.6 cm). Chain interval: 3.2 cm.
Trew, Christoph Jacob
Nuremberg, Germany, Europe
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Hand colored with opaque watercolors
From: Plantae selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini, in hortis curiosorum nutrita (Nuremberg, 1750-1773).
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