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Lot 32683: Blackwell - 7 Botanical Engravings

Est: $500 USD - $1,500 USDSold:
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare BooksFranklin, TN, USJuly 10, 2021

Item Overview

Description

This engaging botanical engraving is from Elizabeth Blackwell's Herbarium Blackwellianum, Selectum sive Collectio Stirpium or Sammlung der Gewache. The work was published by Christoph Jacob Trew in Nuremberg between 1757 and 1773. The engravings were done by Nikolaus Freidrich Eisenberger for the revised and expanded German version of Blackwell's A Curious Herbal which was first published in 1737. Trew translated her Herbal into German and enhanced some of the descriptions.

"This edition is artistically superior to Blackwell's Curious Herbal on which it is only partly based. The first 500 plates by N. F. Eisenberger, were copied from Blackwell's plates but are much more carefully drawn, engraved and coloured, and have alterations and additional material." (De Belder)

Elizabeth Blackwell created her A Curious Herbal in order to raise money to free her husband from debtor's prison. She drew, engraved, and colored the illustrations herself with the support of Isaac Rand. She used speciments from the Chelsea Physic Garden. While she succeeded in releasing her husband from prison, Alexander absconded to Sweden and conned his way to the court physician to the King and eventually hanged for treason. Elizabeth, then a widow, was denied any profits from the enterprise when it published.

Dimensions

~ 9" by 14 3/8"

Medium

Originally Hand-colored Engraving

Date

1757-1773

Condition Report

The work is in very good to excellent condition. There may be a few minor marks or imperfections to be expected with age. Please review the image carefully for condition and contact us with any questions.

Literature

Herbarium Blackwellianum, Selectum sive Collectio Stirpium or Sammlung der Gewache

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Tax is applied to TN state purchases at a rate of 9.25%.