Johann Weinmann's Phytanthoza Iconographia 1737

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Gramen WAO28 ~~$215~~ Sale Price: $115	Linaria WAO29 ~~$205~~ Sale Price: $125	Limonium WAO30 ~~$215~~ Sale Price: $115


Guajacana WAO31 ~~$205~~ Sale Price: $125	Spica Celtica WAO32 ~~$205~~ Sale Price: $125	Coral arbor siliquosa WAO33 ~~$215~~ Sale Price: $115


Tilia foemina major WNM78 ~~$225~~ Sale Price: SOLD	Yucca Americana WNM76 ~~$205~~ Sale Price: $125	Faufel pinas, Areca sylvestris, Date Palm WNM72 ~~$205~~ Sale Price: $125


Dorian Fruit, Doeriana, Pomiferi similis WNM127 ~~$225~~ Sale Price: $145	Smyrnium greticum, Solanum arborescens WNM81 ~~$225~~ Sale Price: $145	Stramonia pomo WNM128 ~~$225~~ Sale Price: SOLD

CoconCoconut, Palnia indica nucifera coccus dicta WNM74 $225 Sale Price: $145	Jacea cynoides echinato capite WNM94 ~~$225~~ Sale Price: $145	Laurel, Laurus undulato folio vulgaris WNM83 $205 Sale Price: $125

Laurel, Laurus alexandrina WNM86 $225 Sale Price: $145	Larch, Larix cum agarico WNM71 $205 Sale Price: $125	Willow, Salix WAO34 $205 Sale Price: $125Salix

Papaya WAO22 $295 Sale Price: $145	Castanea WAO27 $205 Sale Price: $125	Faufel Pinas, Areca sylvestris, Date Palm WAO23 $285 Sale Price: $145


Suber latifolium WNM80 ~~$205~~ Sale Price: $125	Pistacia sylvestris WNM88 ~~$205~~ Sale Price: $125	Sandalum amboinense spurium WNM85 ~~$205~~ Sale Price: $125


Solanum tomentosum WNM98 ~~$225~~ Sale Price: $145	Pistacia seu Terebinthus Indica WN816 ~~$225~~ Sale Price: $145	Galanga gladiolus odoratus WNM100 ~~$225~~ Sale Price: $145

Holly, Aquifolium foliis ex albo et viridi variegatis WN159 ~~$225~~ Sale Price: $145	Mechoacanna vera sativa WNM92 ~~$225~~ Sale Price: $145	Potamogeton foliis angustis splendentibus WN830 ~~$225~~ Sale Price: $145

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Recently, we were fortunate enough to secure a breaker copy of Johann Weinmann’s Phytanthoza Iconographia, 1737-1745. These rare and beautiful prints represent one of the most outstanding and innovative achievements in botanical illustration. The engraver, J.J. Haid printed many of the illustrations utilizing a new mezzotint technique pioneered by the Englishman, Kirkall, to produce 1,025 hand colored engravings.

Johann Weinmann directed a famous pharmacy in Regensburg. The Phytanthoza Iconographia was his masterpiece, a huge work in eight folio volumes which provided one of the most comprehensive botanical references of the eighteenth century. Great Flower Books describes it as a “pioneering work of botanical prints” and it remains today one of the most ambitious works ever undertaken, displaying over 4,000 species. Particularly magnificent are the tulips, iris, exotic palms and pineapples, cactus, fruit & vegetables.

The artist for the much of the work was the gifted Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Born of a humble family in Heidelberg, Ehret was taught to draw by his father at an early age. As a young man, he worked as a gardener first for the Elector of Heidelburg and then the Margrave of Badaen-Durlach.

The Margrave had an elaborate botanical garden, particularly renowned for its 5,000 varieties of tulips and 800 varieties of hyacinths. Here Ehret painted these splendid flowers in his leisure time. The favoritism he was shown because of his artistic talents resulted in serious discord amongst the staff & he finally resigned his position, much to the regret of the Margrave.

While working as an oarsman on the Danube, he met Johann Wilhelm Weinmann, who hired him to draw for Phytanthoza Iconographia. During the first year he produced 500 drawings for which Weinmann paid him only a fraction of the small sum agreed on, claiming Ehret should have produced 1,000 drawings during this time.

Ehret left, becoming one of the foremost botanical artists of his day, collaborating with the wealthy physician & botanist, Jakob Trew, Linnaeus, Philip Miller and many others.