Hortus Berolinensis

1816

L. Schmidt

Engraver, German, active 19th century

Karl Ludwig Willdenow

Author, German, 1765 - 1812

Friedrich Guimpel

Artist, German, active 19th century

Philip Haas

Engraver, American, born Germany, c. 1808 - 1863

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with engraved title, 2 hand-colored engraved garden plans (before and after Willdenow's reorganization), 108 hand-colored engraved plates

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ingrid Rose in memory of her husband Milton Rose

  • Dimensions

    book: 42 × 28 × 5.5 cm (16 9/16 × 11 × 2 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.7.4


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ingrid Rose, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1990

  • Sitwell, Sacheverell, Wilfred Blunt. Great flower books, 1700-1900 : a bibliographical record of two centuries of finely-illustrated flower books. New York, c. 1990: 151.

Inscriptions

all 108 plates have engraved plate numbers and titles, some include engraver's name; by later hand on first free endpaper upper right in ink: 362


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