Decorative
copper engravings
printed in colour
and originally
coloured by
hand
(colour engravings),
edited and published
by J.W. Weinmann
-
a pharmacist
from Regensburg
(1638 - 1741)
-
in four splendid
folio-volumes
with the title
"Phytantoza
Iconographica".
The four volumes
include in all
about 1000 engravings,
for which Weinmann
commissioned
the best artists
of the Augsburg
school at his
time - such
as Haid, Ridinger,
Seutter and
others.
For the first
time the technique
of colour engraving
was used in
Germany.
The volumes
were published
in
Regensburg in
the years 1737
till 1741. Size
of the prints
about 33 x 21
cm.
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ENGRAVINGS BY WEINMANN
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