Scientific Illustration: Botany: Ehret, Georg Dionysius (1708 -1770)
Biographical:
Born in Germany. Worked with Carl Linneaeus, Christoph Jakob Trew, William Aiton, and Patrick Browne. Illustrated Hortus cliffortianus (1738),
Hortus nitidissimis (1750-1786), Plantae selectae (1750-73)
, Hortus kewensis (1789), Plantae et papiliones rariores (1748-1759) and The civil and natural history of Jamaica (1756).
Married sister-in-law of Philip Miller.
 Georg Ehret
Georg Ehret
Also See:
History of Botanical Illustration
Images Imperfect, the Legacy of Scientific Illustration
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