TREW, Christoph Jakob (1695-1769) - Johann Jacob HAID (1704-1767) after A. HECKELL

Georgius Dionysius Ehret

[Nuremberg]: [n.d.]. Mezzotint, on laid paper. Sheet size: 20 5/8 x 14 1/2 inches. Plate mark: 15 5/8 x 10 1/4 inches.

An important mezzotint portrait by Johann Jakob Haid, of one of the greatest 18th botanical artists, after an original portrait by Heckell.

Johann Jakob Haid came from a German family of artists and printmakers. Haid worked initially with the animal painter Johann Elias Ridinger, but he soon went on to found a well-known publishing house in Augsburg. This portrait is from a series which pictured those most closely involved in the publication of Trew's Plantae Selectae, and was originally bound into that great botanical work.

Item #21618

Price: $450.00