{"id":19264,"date":"2017-12-01T14:50:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T19:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/?post_type=product&p=19264"},"modified":"2021-12-03T16:07:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:07:40","slug":"natural-history-art-bird-studies-knorr-delights-nature-antique-prints-1766","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/product\/natural-history-art-bird-studies-knorr-delights-nature-antique-prints-1766\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural History Art, Birds, Knorr, Delights of Nature, Antique Prints, 1766 (Sold)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of the prints in Knorr’s series have dedications to patrons and collectors involved in the production of the prints or providing access to specimens from their collections. Those dedicated \u201cEx Museo Excell. Dn. D. Christ. Jac. Trew. S. S\u201d refer to the collection of Christoph Jacob Trew, a physician and botanist and major patron of natural history artists and works. Trew is most famous for his support of botanical artist Georg Dionysius Ehret in publishing two of the finest 18th century botanical sets: Plantae Selectae<\/strong> and Hortus Nitidissimis<\/strong>. Those credited to the \u201cEx Museo Mulleriano\u201d refer to the zoologist and professor Philipp Ludwig Statius M\u00fcller (1725 – 1776).<\/p>\n

Georg Wolfgang Knorr was a German paleontologist, as well as a painter, draftsman, engraver, collector and art dealer. At age 18, he became a copperplate engraver for Leonhard Blanc, working with Martin Tyroff on the illustrations for Jacob Scheuchzer’s Physica Sacra<\/strong> (1731). Later he engraved portraits, landscapes, geological formations, and animal studies after D\u00fcrer and the Kilian family. In the second half of the 18th century, Nuremberg overtook Augsburg as the center of production for fine natural history books in Germany. There, Knorr published scientific works distinguished by their beautiful hand-colored plates. His works include two posthumous productions: Deliciae Naturae Selectae Oder Auserlefenes Naturalien Cabinet<\/strong> (1766-67), and Les D\u00e9lices Des Yeux et de L’espirit, ou Collection Generale des Differentes Esp\u00e8ces de Coquillages <\/strong>(1764-73).<\/p>\n

References:<\/p>\n

Dance, S. Peter. The Art of Natural History: Animal Illustrators and their Work<\/em>. London: 1978. pp. 78 and 217.<\/p>\n

Lanckoronska, Maria and Richard \u00d6hler. Buchillustration Des XVIII. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland, Osterreich Und Der Schweitz: Dritter Teil. <\/em>Leipzig: Die Spamer, 1934. I, 46.<\/p>\n

Nissen, Claus. Die Zoologische Buchillustration: ihre Bibliographie und Geschichte.<\/em> Stuttgart: 1969-78. 2227.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Wolfgang Knorr (1705-1761), B. R. Dietzschin, Christian Leinberger, J.C. Keller et al. (after)
\nJakob-Andreas Eisenmann, S. Leitner, Jr., Andreas Hoffer et al. (engravers)
\n[Ostrich], Plate I.1<\/strong>
\n[Penguin], Plate I.2<\/strong>
\nfrom Deliciae Naturae Selectae Oder Auserlefenes Nat\u00fcralien-Cabinet
\n[Selected Delights of Nature, or the Exquisite Collector’s Cabinet]<\/strong><\/em>
\nHeirs of G.W. Knorr, Nuremburg, Germany: c. 1766-67
\nHand-colored engravings
\n19.5 x 14 inches, overall
\n13.5 x 10.25 inches, platemark<\/p>\n

To see other Knorr natural history prints on our site, search our site.<\/p>\n

Colorful natural history prints of birds, from a series that includes mammals, reptiles, birds, and marine life. These prints were created during the heyday of the collector\u2019s cabinet and are very much in the spirit of the Enlightenment.<\/p>\n

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