a. Lychnis sylvestris seu Ocymastrum rubrum. b. Lychnis seu Ocymastrum rubrum folüs pictis.c.Lychnis viscosa Orientalis longifolia...
Haid (illus).
Germany. No date. 1735- 1745.
Engraving with mezzotint, printed in color with additional handcolor, image size 13 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches on sheet 15 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches. Very good condition. Five flowering plants, plate No. 685 from Johann Wilhelm Weinmann " Phytanthoza Iconographia ", printed on thick laid paper. Dunthorne (#327) notes that plates from this work represent "some of the earliest examples of color printing from a single plate", many of them printed by a combination of line engraving and mezzotint. The initial H at lower right indicates the artist engraver Johann Jakob Haid (1704-1767). Item #43576
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