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Abraham Munting (1626-1683), engraving,ALOE PURPUREA LAEVIS, Plate 94, Fol. 314, from \"Phytographia Curiosa\"; publ. Pieter van der Aa, Leiden; 1713. Sheet 15 1/4 x 10 1/8\",plate 12 1/2 x 8 1/4\". Later hand coloring. Printed on thin paper with vertical chains; a beautiful (and unidentified) crown watermark (see pics). Plate in very fine condition, some small tears and wrinkling along lower margin, faint watermark in clouds to left of Angel. [note - the faint circle on the left margin of sheet is a lens error, NOT on the print]. This plate is one of the more striking images in a collection that is considered groundbreaking.Munting was Director of the Hortus Botanicus in Groningen (founded by his father, Hendrick), and professor at the State University in Groningen. The 245 plates in this folio first appeared in the \"Naauwkeurige Beschryving der Aardgewassen...\", published after Munting\'s death in 1696.
From Christies description of a copy of \"Naauwkeurige...\" they sold in 2003:
\"This work includes some of the finest botanical illustrations of their time, images which represent \'a radical departure from the iconography of then traditional florilegium... Each plate shows a different plant in flower, including many exotic species from America and other distant lands. The plant dominates the foreground, filling the entire page, often with a detail of the fruit or the flowers presented on a smaller scale. In some cases the plants are presentedà trompe l\'oeil, while in others they have been arranged in decorated urns. Sometimes gardening tools are depicted as well. The name of each plant appears written on an elegantly fluttering ribbon or cartouche, or on a crumbling marble plaque. The originality of the work lies, however, in the small landscapes that have been inserted into the background of the plates....The initial botanical line drawings (apparently commissioned by Abraham Munting) are now known to have been created by about ten different but unidentified artists. Some time after Munting\'s death, and in preparation for their publication, these line drawings had tone and the pictorial back- and fore-grounds added by Jan Goeree (1670-1731) under the supervision of the publishers. The engraving and etching was then carried out by Joseph Mulder and Jacob Gole.\"
NOTE: plates from the \"Naauwkeurige\" have only a folio number inscribed top right corner; plates that have both a folio and Fig. number are from thelater \"Phytographia Curiosa\".
Provenance - Lillian Goldsmith, River House Antiques, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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