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In this period, it was fashionable among the aristocracy in Central Europe to grow plants native to the Mediterranean and the tropics, despite the cold winter climate. They built tall greenhouses to shelter the trees during the winter, and had the plants moved outdoors in the summer. Johann Christoph Volckamer was one such person — a wealthy Nuremberg silk merchant with a fine citrus greenhouse and garden. He engaged several artists and engravers to produce N\u00fcrnbergische Hesperides<\/em><\/strong>, a two-volume work featuring his collection. The first volume was published in 1708, and the continuation volume in 1714. Each consists of four parts on citrus fruits and one part devoted to other flowering plants or fruits. According to scholar Gordon Dunthorne, this was the first botanical set to focus almost solely on fruit.<\/p>\n

The prints follow a distinctive artistic format in which the fruit or flowers are displayed in monumental scale in bird\u2019s-eye views above landscapes of the formal gardens, palazzos and country houses where they were grown. Fruits are generally shown flying in the sky, though sometimes other compositions are employed, such as oversized plants towering over Lilliputian landscapes. A floating ribbon wrapped around each specimen bears its name. The gardens shown are in Germany, Austria and northern Italy, especially around Verona, and include Volckamer\u2019s garden, Gostenhof. These compositions are described by scholar Sandra Raphael as follows: “The fruit and gardens in most of the plates – spherical oranges, lemons, and citrons drifting like eccentric balloons above miniature landscapes – make pleasingly surreal compositions\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Full Title: N\u00fcrnbergische Hesperides, oder gr\u00fcndliche Beschreibung der Edlen Citronat, Citronen und Pomerantzen-Fr\u00fcchte …Auf das accurateste in Kupffer gestochen, in Vier Theile eingetheilet und mit n\u00fctzlichen Anmerckungen erkl\u00e4ret. Beneben der Flora, oder Curiosen Vorstellung Verschiedener raren Blumen … Wie auch einem Bericht von denen in des Authoris Garten stehenden Columnis Milliaribus <\/strong><\/p>\n

[Nuremberg Hesperides, or thorough description of the noble citron and bitter orange fruits\u2026With the most accurate copperplate engravings, divided in four parts and with useful explanatory notes. Beneben of the Flora, or representation of different rare flowers\u2026as well as being a record of those in the author\u2019s garden, Columnis Milliaribus]<\/p>\n

Framed:\u00a0 Beautifully presented in hand painted frames, in black with gold detail, having a latticework quatrefoils and rosettes in the corners, the elaborate multilevel hand painted french mat with “Volckamer” title in lower center.<\/p>\n

Condition: Generally very good, the colors bright, the paper with the usual light overall toning, wear, soft creases. Frames very good with light wear.<\/p>\n

References:<\/p>\n

Blunt, Wilfred, rev. by Stearn, William T. The Art of Botanical Illustration.<\/em> Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: Antique Collectors Club, 1994. p. 154.<\/p>\n

Dunthorne, Gordon. Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries. Their History, Makers and Uses, with a Catalogue Raisonne of the Works in Which They Are Found.<\/em> Washington, D.C.: Published by the Author, 1938. 323.<\/p>\n

Feldmann, Reinhard. Bl\u00fcten und Bl\u00e4tter. Illustrierte Kr\u00e4uter- und Pflanzenb\u00fccher aus f\u00fcnf Jahrhunderten<\/em>. Muenster, Germany: 1996. 43.<\/p>\n

\u201cJohann Christoph Volkamer (Volckamer): N\u00fcrbergisches Hesperides oder gr\u00fcndliche Beschreibung.\u201d Archbishop Chateau and Gardens in Kromeriz. <\/em>2002-2003. http:\/\/digi.azz.cz\/bookinfo.php?BookID=21&lng=2 (4 March 2009).<\/p>\n

Lanckoronska, Maria and Richard \u00d6hler. Buchillustration Des XVIII. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland, Osterreich Und Der Schweitz: Dritter Teil.<\/em> Leipzig: Die Spamer, 1934. l, 43.<\/p>\n

The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung fur Botanik, VaduzLiechtenstein Collected by the late Arpad Plesch.<\/em> London: Sotheby & Co., 1975. 798.<\/p>\n

Nissen, Claus. Die Botanische Buchillustration: ihre Geschichte und Bibliographie.<\/em> Stuttgart: 1951-66. 2076.<\/p>\n

Pritzel, Georg August. Thesaurus Literaturae Botanicae Omnium Gentium.<\/em> Milan: 1950. 9848.<\/p>\n

Sitwell, Sacheverell. Great Flower Books, 1700-1900.<\/em> New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. p. 148.<\/p>\n

Raphael, Sandra. An Oak Spring Pomona. A Selection of the Rare Books on Fruit in the OakSpringGarden Library.<\/em> Upperville, VA: Oak Spring Garden Library; New Haven: Distributed by Yale University Press, 1990. 73.<\/p>\n

Wimmer, Clemens Alexander and Iris Lauterbach. Bibliographie der vor 1750 Erschienenen Deutschen Gartenb\u00fccher.<\/em> N\u00f6rdlingen: Alfons Uhl, 2003. pp. 12 and 196.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Johann Christoph Volckamer (1644-1720) (editor)
\nPaul Decker, B. Kenkel, I.C. Steinberger, Delsenbach, T.G. Beckh, Krieger, F.P. Lindner et al. (after)
\nL.C. Glotsch, J.C. Dehne, Montalegre, et al. (engravers)
\nLimon Cedrato 1699, In Hrn: Doct. Schobers garten, Plate 164a
\nAltri Cedrati dalla Bizaria 1700, Plate 172d
\n<\/strong>from N\u00fcrnbergische Hesperides<\/strong><\/em>
\nJ.A. Endter Sohn und Erben, Nuremberg: 1708 and 1714
\nHand-colored engravings
\n12.5 x 8.25 inches each, platemark
\n14 x 9 inches each, overall
\n27 x 22 inches, framed
\nProvenance:\u00a0 Trowbridge Galleries, London, with their certificate, c. 1990s
\n$4,000, the pair in elaborate hand-decorated custom frames<\/p>\n

A large selection of unframed<\/strong> Volckamer citrus prints are also shown on our website.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pair of framed prints of citrus fruits; these are citrons cultivated in Europe in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. From a series that depicts lemons, limes, oranges, bergamots and grapefruits \u2013 both typical and exotic varieties and shapes \u2013 as well as some other non-citrus fruits such as pineapples, pomegranates, and coconuts.<\/p>\n

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