Early 18th Century Etching Of Botany: Phalangium And Lilium

From the Suite: Viridarium Reformatum, seu Regnum Vegetabile: Krauter Buch (Newly Revised Garden of the Vegetable Kingdom: Herb Book), Michael Bernhard Valentini (1657-1729) editor.
Frankfurt, Anton Heinscheidt, 1719.
The Viridarium Reformatum is an important collection of botanical illustrations to which a number of artists including Johann Theodor de Bry contributed. It is believed that Valentini, a physician, professor of medicine and collector of natural history specimens, had acquired de Bry's plates from his famous Florilegium renovatum et auctum of 1641, produced in collaboration with his son-in-law Matthäus Merian. Valentini wanted this collection to serve as a reference, a kind of "botanical library".

Beautiful print in pretty colors.

Bowl: 325 x 195
Sheet: 335 x 205