A Weinmann Plate

Early colour-printing, luminous and strange.

Book: from Phytanthoza Iconographia
Artist: Johann Wilhelm Weinmann
Date: 1737–1745
Held by: Wikimedia Commons

Format

The full-resolution scan, colour-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore, down to the stipple.

$29.00

The story

Weinmann's great *Phytanthoza* was among the first botanical works printed in colour, using the new mezzotint process — giving its flowers a soft, glowing, almost dreamlike quality quite unlike engraving. A landmark in the marriage of the printing press and the garden, and still one of the strangest, loveliest ways a flower has ever been put on paper.

See it on your wall

The garden, brought indoors

A Weinmann Plate printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

About this reproduction

A faithful reproduction of a public-domain plate held by Wikimedia Commons — the work is centuries out of copyright (1737–1745).
Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years (inscribed pieces and atelier bouquets are set by hand and printed to order).
Colour-managed to the source scan: the hand-colour is the colourist’s, not ours. We correct nothing and invent nothing.
Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.

Why our plates cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the stipple that makes a petal look soft, the wash of the hand-colourist, the veins of the leaf — on stock made to outlive its owner. A poster reproduces the picture. This reproduces the plate.

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