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Georg Dionysius Ehret
Meriana (Bugle Lily)
1750-73

Name: Meriana (Bugle Lily)
Brand: Georg Dionysius Ehret
Rating: 5 (11 reviews)

$2,975List Price

About the Item

GEORGE DIONSYSIUS EHRET (1708-1770). Plantae Selectae.... Text by Dr. Christoph Trew. Drawn by Georg Dionsysius Ehret. Engraved by Johannes Jacobus and Johannes Elias Haid. Nuremberg, 1750-73. Hand-colored engravings. Titles highlighted with goldleaf. 100 plates. 19.5” x 13.5” Unframed. A supplement of 20 plates issued by B.C. Vogel in 1790. "The dominant influence in botanical art during the middle years of the 18th century." "One of the finest records of cultivated flowers..." "His accuracy and general excellence as a true botanical artist have never been equaled." Ehret’s praises have been sung throughout the centuries. While his training was in gardening, Ehret's true talents were in his art. Drawing the specimens from life in the garden's in which he labored won Ehret his employer's praise and his co-workers jealousy. Not only were his botanical portraits highly accurate in every technical detail, they reflected an awe-inspiring love of subject. A restless man, Ehret wandered from Heidelberg through Germany to Vienna and Basle, working his way to Paris and finally settling in London. He was honored by peers and patrons wherever he traveled. Ehret's list of benefactors include the most brilliant and generous members of society in his day. However, it was Christoph Trew, a wealthy physician, lifelong supporter and friend, who published the work for which Ehret is best known, Plantae Selectae. Ehret went to Leiden to meet Carolus Linnaeus and they became the best of friends. It is the Linnaen classification of plants to which Ehret subscribed. In distinguishing of the sexual systems of plants and the cross-sectioning of specimens, based on the teachings of Linnaeus, Ehret's illustrations have become the standard followed by horticulturists throughout the centuries. Ehret is the only foreigner to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in England. The illustrations for Plantae Selectae were printed in black and white and painstaking colored by hand at the time of publication. The color is superb! All of the initial words of the titles were gilded; a glorious tribute to an achievement of excellence. Various scholars at the time of publication praised the book highly, singling out the excellent quality of Ehret's watercolor studies, as well as Haid's fidelity to them. In a letter to Linnaeus in the 1750's, Dr. Trew called the book "one of the miracles of our century in the natural sciences." In the 1960's, Claus Nissen wrote "the Plantae Selectae became the most beautiful German plant-book; even among foreign works there are few which could compete with it." Reference: Gerta Calman, Ehret, Flower Painter Extraordinary. Boston: 1977. Gordon Dunthorne, Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries. London: 1938. Claus Nissen, Die Botansiche Buchillustration. Stuttgart: 1966

Creator:
Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708 - 1770, German)
Creation Year:
1750-73
Dimensions:
Height: 28 in (71.12 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
Medium:
Gesso,Gold Leaf,Plexiglass,Archival Tape,Watercolor,Archival Paper,Handmade Paper,Laid Paper,Rag Paper
Movement & Style:
Academic
Period:
1750-1759
Condition:
Clean, crisp image. Full margins. Beautiful original hand-coloring. Hand-drawn French lines flanking custom hand-made marbled paper.
Gallery Location:
Florham Park, NJ
Reference Number:
Seller: 2019 -8-11stDibs: LU6524788431

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