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Thlaspi montanum…, N 974, colour-printed mezzotint, ca 1735. Numbered №974 in the upper right corner. Sheet size: ca 38 x 24 cm. In overall good condition. From: Johann Wilhelm Weinmann, Phytanthoza Iconographia, sive conspectus aliquot millium, tam indigenarum quam exoticarum, ex quatuor mundi partibus… plantarum, arborum, fruticum, florum, fructuum, fungorum, &c., 1735-1745, Regensburg. Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) - an apothecary and botanist who resided in Regensburg, Germany. He produced the Phytanthoza Iconographia - the first botanical book with colour-printed mezzotints - between 1735 and 1745. Over 4,000 plants and flowers are depicted on 1,025 plates, making this series one of the most comprehensive and finest color plate florilegia ever produced. Some of the plates are marked in the lower right corner with an “S” or an “H,” probably referring to the engravers Seuter or Haid (Dunthorne). Many of the sheets of this important florilegium are engraved from drawings by the eminent botanical artist Georg Dionysus (G.D.) Ehret, who had a great influence on botanical art in the eighteenth century. English translation of title: Phythanthoza Iconographia, or comprehensive survey of thousands of native and foreign plants, from all four corners of the world, the result of many years of tireless study… Plants, Trees, Shrubs, Herbs, Flowers, Fruits and Mushrooms…