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German School
Palm Trees and a Rubber Tree
from Sammlung Merkwuerdiger Pflanzen [Collection of Strange Plants]
Weilburg, Germany: 1813
Watercolors on laid paper
14.75 x 10 inches, overall
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Grouping of six botanical watercolors (five of palm trees and one of a rubber tree), painted in Germany by an anonymous artist in the spring of 1813. Each is inscribed in elegant calligraphy with the name of the plant in German and sometimes is accompanied by its Latin name as well. The plants are delineated with great sensitivity and accuracy against plain backgrounds with a small patch of ground, and some include large details of the fruit.

They were originally bound as a collection of over 150 watercolors in an album with a title page. The text on that page notes that the plants were selected with "particular consideration for commercial, industrial, medical and natural science." They were created during the heyday of the collector's cabinet and are very much in the spirit of the Enlightenment, by illustrating a diversity of natural history oddities, albeit useful plants, in both a scientific and decorative manner.

Titles and numbers of each:

49. Sago Palme [Sago Palm]
50. 1. Kohl Palme. 2. Die fächertragende Ocinpalme. [1. Cabbage Palm 2. Fan Palm]
51. Dattel Palme [Date Palm]
52. Die Wachspalme aus Südamerica. Ceroxylon Andricola. [The Wax Palm of South America]
53. Die Schlanke Palme von Neu-Irland. Ptychosperma gracilis. Labrillardière. [The Slender Palm of New Ireland]
54. Der Caoutschout. Hevex Guianensis. welcher das Gummi elasticum liefert. [The Rubber Plant]

Title page inscription: Sammlung merkwuerdiger Pflanzen mit besonderer Ruecksicht auf Handel, Gewerbe, Arzneikunde und Natur forschung, nebst einem Anhange von Giftplanzen, mit mehren Registern zu verschiedenem Gebrauche versehen. Erster Band, welcher das allgemeine Register enthalt. Weilburg in Frühling 1813.

[Collection of strange plants out of particular consideration for commercial, industrial, medical and natural science, plus an appendix of poisonous plants, providing an enhanced index to various uses. First volume, that contains the general index. Weilburg in Spring 1813.]

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