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.\u00a0 Fruits are generally shown flying in the sky, though sometimes other compositions are employed, such as oversized plants towering over Lilliputian landscapes.\u00a0 A floating ribbon wrapped around each specimen bears its name.\u00a0 The gardens shown are in Germany, Austria and northern Italy, especially around Verona, and include Volckamer\u2019s garden, Gostenhof.\u00a0 \u00a0These compositions are described by scholar Sandra Raphael as follows:\u00a0 “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.\u00a0 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].<\/strong><\/p>\n Condition: Generally very good, the colors bright, the paper with the usual light overall toning, wear, soft creases. Margins professionally restored, including some extensions, and old folds, as issued, now flattened, all as backed with mulberry paper.<\/p>\n References:<\/p>\n Blunt, Wilfred, rev. by Stearn, William T.\u00a0 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>\u00a0 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>.\u00a0 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)
\nJos \u00e0 Montategre (engraver)
\nPineapple, Tab. IV<\/strong>
\nfrom N\u00fcrnbergische Hesperides<\/strong><\/em>
\nJ.A. Endter Sohn und Erben, Nuremberg: 1708 and 1714
\nHand-colored engravings
\n15.25 x 13.5 inches, platemark
\n17.25 x 15.0 inches, overall
\n$2,500<\/p>\n