Abraham Jacobus Wendel
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Abraham Jacobus Wendel 31 October 1826 Leiden |
| Died | 23 September 1915 (aged 88) Leiden |
| Known for | lithography, botanical art |
Abraham Jacobus Wendel (Leiden, 31 October 1826 - Leiden, 23 September 1915) was a Dutch lithographer, draughtsman and scientific botanical and paleontological illustrator using the signature AW.
Abraham Jacobus Wendel was born in 1826 in Leiden as a son of Jacobus Cornelis Wendel (1796-1860) and Johanna Vegt (1801-1869). In 1849 he married Jannetje Koolen (1826-1904) and had six children, including Abraham Jacobus Johannes Wendel (Leiden, 9 July 1854 - 3 April 1930), who became a lithographer and botanical artist in his own right, using signature AJJW. His father Abraham Jacobus Wendel created the botanical illustrations for many books and scientific journal articles. He was a lithographer with the printing house Arntz & Co. in Leiden, and made the illustrations for W. H. De Vriese et al. Descriptions ..(1847). In 1887 he worked with Boek- en steendrukkerij P.W.M. Trap in Leiden: both Wendel and Trap are acknowledged in volumes 6 and 7 of the Annales du Jardin botanique de Buitenzorg (Ann.Jard.Bot.Btzg.).
Botanical and paleontological art, including:
Chaenomeles speciosa by A. J. Wendel from his book with H. Witte: Flora: ... voorkomende in de Nederlandsche tuinen, [1868]
Iris ensata, idem, [1868]
Viburnum plicatum, idem, [1868]
Kerria japonica, idem, [1868]
Wisteria sinensis, idem, [1868]
Cymbidium lancifolium by A. J. Wendel
Paeonia tenuifolia by A.J. Wendel
Orchid 2 from Carl Ludwig Blume Flora Javae et insularum adjacentium, 1858, by A.J. Wendel
Orchid 5 idem
Orchid 6 idem
Orchid 28 idem
Kaart van Zuid-Afrika (Map of Boer War South Africa), by A.J. Wendel in F. Lion Cachet: De worstelstrijd der Transvalers [1900]
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