Johann Wilhelm WEINMANN

Phytanthoza Iconographia

Weinmann's great botanical work Phytanthoza Iconographia was one of the most diverse and comprehensive series of early fruit and flower prints, one of the first works to use colour printing successfully, and the first published work to include work by the greatest botanical artist of the eighteenth century: Georg Dionysius Ehret. The work was drawn from Weinmann's collection of plants and was financed by him. The copperplates were etched in outline with mezzotinted interior tones. The images were printed in colour and finished by hand.
The work represented a major technical and artistic advance over its predecessors and is an extremely valuable record of the plant kingdom as it was understood and classified in the period just preceding the introduction of Linnaeus' revolutionary system of classification.

Cf. Dunthorne 327; cf. Great Flower Books (1990) p.151; cf. Johnston Cleveland Collections 388; cf. Nissen BBI 2126; cf. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 17.050

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