id:			134671
accession number:	1957.192
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1957.192
updated:		2023-05-16 11:14:38.510000

Plantae Selectae:  No. 37 - Yucca, published 1750–73. Georg Dionysius Ehret (German, 1708–1770), published by Christopher Jacob Trew (German, 1695–1769). Engraving, hand-colored; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Arnold M. Davis 1957.192

title:				Plantae Selectae:  No. 37 - Yucca
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creation date:			published 1750–73
creation date earliest:		1773
creation date latest:		1773
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creditline:			Gift of Arnold M. Davis
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culture:	Germany, 18th century
technique:	engraving, hand-colored
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Engraving
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Dunthorne 309

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CREATORS

* Georg Dionysius Ehret (German, 1708–1770)  - artist

* Christopher Jacob Trew (German, 1695–1769)  - publisher

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Flowering of the Botanical Print
	opening date:   2016-03-26T00:00:00
	<i>The Flowering of the Botanical Print</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-July 3, 2016).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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A major problem in horticulture was the lack of a consistent system of classification. The first successful attempt to establish a common nomenclature was in 1724 when 20 London nurserymen published a list of all plants grown in their nurseries. Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus’s <em>Systema Naturae</em> was published in 1735; it classified 7,700 plants by their botanic structure and gave them universally applicable two-part Latin names. From then on artists had to combine scientific accuracy with artistic skill. Many of Ehret’s flower portraits were copied by printmakers and published in the great botanical iconographies of his day. His patron Dr. Christoph Jakob Trew engaged the Haids, a distinguished family of Nuremberg etchers, to translate Ehret’s crisp, vigorously drawn paintings into printed illustrations.
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