Rare Antique Print-NEW JERSEY TEA-CEANOTHUS-Happe-1788

  
Original Antique Maps and Prints. Rare Antique Print-NEW JERSEY TEA-CEANOTHUS-Happe-1788. Description: This extremely rare original old antique print / engraving originates from a collection of unbound engravings, and original drawings. Although this print was not bound in a book, it is part of'Botanica Pharmaceutica: exhibens plantas officinales quarum nomina in dispensatoriis recensentur; cum iconibus ab auctore aere incisis, et vivo colore expressis... It consisted of 6 volumes with a total of 598 botanical plates. This extremely rare work focuses on plants with medicinal properties. It is not listed in Great Flower Books, De Belder, Blunt or Dunthorne. Pritzel 3779 The drawings are made with considerable care for botanical detail, and with a delicate eye for color and line.

Artists and Engravers: The artist, engraver and possibly colourer of this print is Andreas Friedrich Happe (1733 - 1802), who was an apothecary, artist and engraver from Berlin, Germany. Happe worked for the Berlin Academy of Sciences and published several botanical en endomological works a. Botanica pharmaceutica, Berlin 1785; Flora depicta, Berlin 1791. He also illustrated the first volumes of Martini's'Conchylien-Cabinet'.

Much of his work remained unpublished including the 6-volume:'Naturgeschichte der Insekten' and watercolours that are currently in the British Museum and the large collection'Flora Happiana' in the Hunt Institute, Pittsburgh PA. Subject: Plate 541: Ceanothus americanus - New Jersey Tea. We carry several plates from this extremely rare work and also a few original drawings. Carefully review scan as the condition can be seen clearly.

Occasional small tears in paper edge not effecting image. Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 24 x 39.5 cm.

The image size is ca. 13 x 22.5 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 9.4 x 15.6 inch. 5.1 x 8.9 inch. Medium: Original copperplate etching on verge type hand laid paper with watermark. Contemporary / old hand coloring.

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1. Subject: Botanical
2. Original/ Repro: Original
3. Type: Antique