290 watercolors bound in album. Another album with near-duplicate watercolors, held by Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, is attributed to Magdalena Funck and dated 1692 (the Hunt Institute's copy is dated 1762). That album was painted for the Nürnberg University of Altdorf near Erlangen, disbanded in 1809. See Heidrun Ludwig, Nürnberger naturgeschichtliche Maler und Stecher des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts (Marburg an der Lahn, Basilisken-Presse, 1998, pp. 201, 330-331).
This image is in the public domain and can be downloaded from the SEPARATE PUBLIC DOMAIN DATABASE. When using it, please include the following credit statement: Courtesy of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa., on indefinite loan from the Smithsonian Institution.
Copy made from Pl. 72 Alchimilla in Trew and Eisenberger's Herbarium Blackwellianum (Norimbergae, 1750-1773-[this plate issued 1749])-the expanded version of Elizabeth Blackwell's Curious Herbal (London, 1737). Many details missing. Handwritten German text on reverse was copied from nos. 1-3 of the German text that appears as description for tab. 72 [text pp. issued 1749] in volume 1 of HI copy .
"December 1827 / Mss. / 6-1"
5 volumes of 119, 150, 162, 128, and 150 paintings (nearly all by Donovan with some by other hands including E. Duncombe, M. Fox, WH, EK, JK, and LR) accessioned as 851, 852, 853, 854, and 855.
290 watercolors bound in album. Another album with near-duplicate watercolors, held by Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, is attributed to Magdalena Funck and dated 1692 (the Hunt Institute's copy is dated 1762). That album was painted for the Nürnberg University of Altdorf near Erlangen, disbanded in 1809. See Heidrun Ludwig, Nürnberger naturgeschichtliche Maler und Stecher des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts (Marburg an der Lahn, Basilisken-Presse, 1998, pp. 201, 330-331).
290 watercolors bound in album. Another album with near-duplicate watercolors, held by Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, is attributed to Magdalena Funck and dated 1692 (the Hunt Institute's copy is dated 1762). That album was painted for the Nürnberg University of Altdorf near Erlangen, disbanded in 1809. See Heidrun Ludwig, Nürnberger naturgeschichtliche Maler und Stecher des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts (Marburg an der Lahn, Basilisken-Presse, 1998, pp. 201, 330-331).
290 watercolors bound in album. Another album with near-duplicate watercolors, held by Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, is attributed to Magdalena Funck and dated 1692 (the Hunt Institute's copy is dated 1762). That album was painted for the Nürnberg University of Altdorf near Erlangen, disbanded in 1809. See Heidrun Ludwig, Nürnberger naturgeschichtliche Maler und Stecher des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts (Marburg an der Lahn, Basilisken-Presse, 1998, pp. 201, 330-331).