Hortus Berolinensis
1816
Engraver, German, active 19th century
Author, German, 1765 - 1812
Artist, German, active 19th century
Engraver, American, born Germany, c. 1808 - 1863

Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with engraved title, 2 hand-colored engraved garden plans (before and after Willdenow's reorganization), 108 hand-colored engraved plates
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 42 × 28 × 5.5 cm (16 9/16 × 11 × 2 3/16 in.)
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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