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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 227835, member: 56&quot;]The book &quot;Phytanthoza iconographia&quot; had more than 1000 plates and was put together 1737-45. So sometime in that period.</p><p><br /></p><p>Weinmann didn&#039;t do the prints.&nbsp; He was an apothecary and wealthy. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is from the link Any J supplied:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Weinmann employed the youthful <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Dionysius_Ehret" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Dionysius_Ehret" rel="nofollow">Georg Dionysius Ehret</a> as illustrator, who used a newly developed printing process involving mezzotint, which allowed greater detail and shading, and was finished by hand-colouring. Seuter and Ridinger turned out the first volumes, while <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Haid" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Haid" rel="nofollow">Johann Jakob Haid</a> managed the later volumes. </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>So you would probably want to use all the words J W Weinmann, Georg Ehret, Phytanthoza iconographia, and 1737-45.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also consider using &quot;botanical illustration&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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