NEES VON ESENBECK, Elise (1842-1921). A collection of original drawings of Orchids in five albums. [Breslau: 1865-1866]. 2° (563 x 395 mm). 137 drawings of orchids (474 x 303 mm. approx.), black chalk and bodycolor on slate-grey prepared paper, mounted recto and verso, many initialled "E.N." and inscribed "n[ach] d[er] Natur" and dated, each with an inscription identifying the plants by their Latin binomials, giving a country, or place of origin and citing an authority for the attribution. (Some minor staining to mounts and tissue guards, a few plates with minor staining.) Original near-uniform cloth, blocked in gilt and blind (one album with splits to joints, a second with small tear to head and foot of spine), all contained within a single modern cloth solander box with morocco label on spine. Provenance : sold Christie's London, 22 March 2000, lot 75.
NEES VON ESENBECK, Elise (1842-1921). A collection of original drawings of Orchids in five albums. [Breslau: 1865-1866]. 2° (563 x 395 mm). 137 drawings of orchids (474 x 303 mm. approx.), black chalk and bodycolor on slate-grey prepared paper, mounted recto and verso, many initialled "E.N." and inscribed "n[ach] d[er] Natur" and dated, each with an inscription identifying the plants by their Latin binomials, giving a country, or place of origin and citing an authority for the attribution. (Some minor staining to mounts and tissue guards, a few plates with minor staining.) Original near-uniform cloth, blocked in gilt and blind (one album with splits to joints, a second with small tear to head and foot of spine), all contained within a single modern cloth solander box with morocco label on spine. Provenance : sold Christie's London, 22 March 2000, lot 75. A FINE AND EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF DELICATELY RENDERED DRAWINGS OF ORCHIDS. Elise Nees von Esenbeck was born in 1842 a talented member of a family with a flair for botany. Her love of flowers would no doubt have been encouraged and stimulated by her grandfather, Christian Nees von Esenbeck (1776-1858), one of Germany's greatest 19th-century botanists, and her great-uncle Theodor Friedrich Nees von Esenbeck (1787-1837), who was Inspector of the Leiden Botanic Garden, Director of the Bonn University Botanic Garden and author of Plantae officinales , published in 6 volumes between 1821-1833. Elise, clearly both a keen observer of nature and a highly talented artist, drew upon the wide variety of plants available to her in the botanical gardens at Breslau: the gardens that her grandfather had helped to nurture. The geographical scope of the drawings is enormous with examples that were native to Guatemala, Mexico, China, India, Surinam, Brazil, Java, Nepal, Australia, Panama, Jamaica, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Assam, Venezuela, Madagascar, Ceylon, Peru, Costa Rica, Caracas, Cuba and Singapore. Her work was exhibited in Berlin, Dresden, Munich and Antwerp, and also in the United States, where in Chicago she was awarded a prize for her orchid painting.
NEES VON ESENBECK, Elise (1842-1921). A collection of original drawings of Orchids in five albums. [Breslau: 1865-1866]. 2° (563 x 395 mm). 137 drawings of orchids (474 x 303 mm. approx.), black chalk and bodycolor on slate-grey prepared paper, mounted recto and verso, many initialled "E.N." and inscribed "n[ach] d[er] Natur" and dated, each with an inscription identifying the plants by their Latin binomials, giving a country, or place of origin and citing an authority for the attribution. (Some minor staining to mounts and tissue guards, a few plates with minor staining.) Original near-uniform cloth, blocked in gilt and blind (one album with splits to joints, a second with small tear to head and foot of spine), all contained within a single modern cloth solander box with morocco label on spine. Provenance : sold Christie's London, 22 March 2000, lot 75.
NEES VON ESENBECK, Elise (1842-1921). A collection of original drawings of Orchids in five albums. [Breslau: 1865-1866]. 2° (563 x 395 mm). 137 drawings of orchids (474 x 303 mm. approx.), black chalk and bodycolor on slate-grey prepared paper, mounted recto and verso, many initialled "E.N." and inscribed "n[ach] d[er] Natur" and dated, each with an inscription identifying the plants by their Latin binomials, giving a country, or place of origin and citing an authority for the attribution. (Some minor staining to mounts and tissue guards, a few plates with minor staining.) Original near-uniform cloth, blocked in gilt and blind (one album with splits to joints, a second with small tear to head and foot of spine), all contained within a single modern cloth solander box with morocco label on spine. Provenance : sold Christie's London, 22 March 2000, lot 75. A FINE AND EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF DELICATELY RENDERED DRAWINGS OF ORCHIDS. Elise Nees von Esenbeck was born in 1842 a talented member of a family with a flair for botany. Her love of flowers would no doubt have been encouraged and stimulated by her grandfather, Christian Nees von Esenbeck (1776-1858), one of Germany's greatest 19th-century botanists, and her great-uncle Theodor Friedrich Nees von Esenbeck (1787-1837), who was Inspector of the Leiden Botanic Garden, Director of the Bonn University Botanic Garden and author of Plantae officinales , published in 6 volumes between 1821-1833. Elise, clearly both a keen observer of nature and a highly talented artist, drew upon the wide variety of plants available to her in the botanical gardens at Breslau: the gardens that her grandfather had helped to nurture. The geographical scope of the drawings is enormous with examples that were native to Guatemala, Mexico, China, India, Surinam, Brazil, Java, Nepal, Australia, Panama, Jamaica, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Assam, Venezuela, Madagascar, Ceylon, Peru, Costa Rica, Caracas, Cuba and Singapore. Her work was exhibited in Berlin, Dresden, Munich and Antwerp, and also in the United States, where in Chicago she was awarded a prize for her orchid painting.
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