Franz Anton von Scheidel (1731–1801) was a German
natural history artist, noted for his botanical illustrations of
Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin's ''Hortus botanicus Vindobonensis'' (Botanical Garden of Vienna), which was published in three
fascicles from 1770 to 1776 and is a description of plants at the
university's botanical garden. Included in this work are 300 hand-coloured copper engravings by Franz von Scheidel.
Von Scheidel undertook several thousand drawings of plants, fish, birds and mammals for Jacquin and many other patrons.
Gallery
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German illustrators
Scientific illustrators
18th-century German painters
18th-century German male artists
German male painters
Botanical illustrators
1731 births
1801 deaths