Volckamer Flowers
from Nurnbergische Hesperides
Flowers

Title in Ribbon: [Flowers]
Plate Number: 224
Buildings named in body of print: Scharrau, Morizerberg, Leimburg

 Flowers

Title in Ribbon: [Flowers]
Plate Number: 216c
Buildings named in body of print: Kleus hamer, Zabels hoff
Engraver: P. Decker

 Leonurus

Title in Ribbon: Leonurus
Plate Number: 232b
Buildings named in body of print:
Die Gegend bey Allerspach
Momordica Ceylandica

Title in Ribbon: Momordica Ceylandica
Plate Number: 244b
Buildings/owners named in bottom margin: Das Schlosslein in Steinbuhl

 Pistaccia

Title in Ribbon: Pistaccia [Pistachio]
Plate Number: 242
Buildings named in body of print: Furth

 Datura Aegyptia

Title in Ribbon: Datura Ægyptia
[Egyptian Datura]
Plate Number: 232a
Buildings named in body of print: Dumenberg, S. Lobst
Engraver: P. Decker
Johann Christoph Volckamer (1662-1744) (editor)
Dehne, F.P. Lindner, L. Glotch, et al. (engravers)
Botanical Prints
from Nurnbergische Hesperides
Nuremberg: 1708-1714
Hand-colored engravings
14 x 9 inches
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Prints of citrus fruits, made during a time period in which it was fashionable among the aristocracy in Central Europe to grow these Mediteranean fruits despite the cold winter climate. Wealthy people built tall greenhouses or "orangeries" to shelter the trees during the winter, and had the plants moved outdoors in the summer. Volckamer's Nurnbergische Hesperides was originally issued in two volumes. The prints follow a distinctive format, in which prize varieties of citrus fruits in monumental scale float in the sky above bird's-eye views or the plants tower over Lilliputian landscapes of the formal gardens, palazzos and country houses where they were grown. The places shown are in Nuremberg and northern Italy, especially around Verona. Each specimen is decorated with a ribbon bearing its name. The prints were engraved by various artists.