[Botany] / [Engraving].
Regensburg, H. Lentz and H. G. Neubauer, 1737-45
Palma coccifera triangula, Calappa, Coccus-Nüssbaüm.
Engraving of the coconut plant from Johann Wilhelm Weinmann’s Phytanthoza Iconographia, “the first botanical book to use color printed mezzotint successfully” (Hunt). Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) was a German botanist and apothecary in Regensburg, and his monumental series represents the most innovative achievement in botanical illustration of its time. “The mezzotint process used..... More
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