ARTIST: Johann Weinmann
PUBLISHER: Published in Amsterdam and Ratisbon.
MEDIUM: Copper engraving printed in color and finished by hand,
DATE: 1736-45.
EDITION SIZE: Paper size 15 1/2 x 18 1/8" (39.4 x 46.1 cm).
DESCRIPTION: Full title reads, "a. Cucurbita longa folio milliflore alba. b. Cucurbita flore luteo folio aspero, fructu albo. c. Cucurbita retortceformis, Coudcorde, Citruellen. D. Gueurbita lagenaria Americana major." <br><br> From Johann Wilhelm Weinmann's "Phytanthoza Iconographia." This beautiful work provides a nearly complete record of the flowers, fruits, and vegetables cultivated in the early 18th century and are among the earliest examples of single-plate color printing. This print is one of the few large folding plates in the collection.
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CONDITION: Good condition and color.
REFERENCE: #327 in "Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries" by Gordon Dunthorne