, Antique Master Print-CHRISTOPH-JACOB-TREW-PORTRAIT-PLANTAE-SELECTAE-Haid-1757, Pictura Antique Prints
, Antique Master Print-CHRISTOPH-JACOB-TREW-PORTRAIT-PLANTAE-SELECTAE-Haid-1757, Pictura Antique Prints

Antique Master Print-CHRISTOPH-JACOB-TREW-PORTRAIT-PLANTAE-SELECTAE-Haid-1757

Print

€395.00

‘D. CHRISTOPH. IAC. TREW. S. CAES. MAIESTAT. ET SERENISS. MARCHIONIS ONOLD. BRANDENBVRG. CONSILIARIVS ET ARCHIATER. REIP. NORIMBERG. PHYSICVS ORDINARIVS SENIOR S. J. I. NOBILIS ET S. PALATII LATERANENSIS AVLAEQVE CAES. COMES. ACADEMIAE CAES. N. C. DIRECTOR SOCIETATVM REG. LONDINENS. AC BEROLINENSIS VT ET BOTANICAE FLORENTINAE SODALIS.’ WITH CREDITS: ‘D. VAN DER SMISSEN PINX.’ AND ‘J. J. HAID SCULPS. ET EXCUD. A.V.”

– Portrait of the German physician and botanist Christoph Jacob Trew shown half-length within a trompe-l’oeil frame. He stands beside a table holding a botanical specimen and a book, with a column and landscape visible in the background. Heraldic coats of arms flank the inscription below. Christoph Jacob Trew (1695-1769) was a prominent German physician, botanist, and medical scholar from Nuremberg. He served as court physician and medical advisor to the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and became widely known for his botanical studies and extensive natural history collections. Trew was closely associated with the celebrated botanical publication Plantae Selectae, which presented finely illustrated plant species and involved several leading artists and engravers of the eighteenth century. A member of numerous learned societies, including the Royal Society in London and academies in Berlin and Florence, Trew played an important role in eighteenth-century scientific networks and botanical scholarship.

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Description

Medium: Mezzotint (Schabkunst), printed in black on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 26.5 x 42.8 cm (10.43 x 16.85 inch). Image size: 19.4 x 31.2 cm. (7.64 x 12.28 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, soling and creasing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

CHRISTOPH JACOB TREW, PLANTAE SELECTAE, JOHANN JACOB HAID MEZZOTINT, DOMINICUS VAN DER SMISSEN, GERMAN BOTANIST PORTRAIT, 18TH CENTURY SCIENTIFIC PORTRAIT, NUREMBERG PHYSICIAN | PCO-EXPO-PORTRAITS

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Johann Jakob Haid, Neue Sammlung von Bildnissen gelehrter um die Kirche, um das gemeine Wesen und um das Reich der Wissenschaften verdienter noch lebender Manner, Augsburg, 1757.

Reference: Art Institute of Chicago, inv. 1920.2213; Plantae Selectae portrait series.

Biography engraver: Johann Jakob Haid (1704-1767) was a German engraver, mezzotint specialist, publisher, and art dealer active in Augsburg. He was among the most important German practitioners of mezzotint in the eighteenth century. Haid produced numerous portraits of European nobility, scholars, clergy, and officials, often after paintings by contemporary artists. Through his publishing house he distributed portrait prints widely across the German states, contributing significantly to the popularity of mezzotint portraiture in Central Europe.

Biography artist: Dominicus van der Smissen (1704-1760) was a German portrait painter active in Hamburg and Altona. Known for refined portraits of merchants, scholars, and members of the educated elite, he produced works that were frequently used as models for engravings. His paintings circulated widely through reproductive prints, including mezzotints engraved by artists such as Johann Jakob Haid.

Additional information

Dimensions 42 × 26 × 1 cm

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