> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 730](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120861) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2484-1) LSID 2484-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62952) QID Q62952 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Ehret, Georg Diomys(ius) (1708-1770), German botanical artist. **Abbreviated name**: *Ehret* \[standard form in IPNI: *Ehret*\] #### Drawings and sketches For Trew's *Plantae selectae*, Aiton's *Hortus kewensis*, Browne's *Nat. hist. Jamaica*, and of plants collected in Newfoundland by Banks at BM; other sets of drawings e.g. at K, the Lindley library, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Royal Society, and at the University Library of Erlangen. An autobiographical note, in translation and with notes by E. S. Barton, was published in Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1894/95: 41-58; some of his letters in 1883/86: 42-56. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 499; BB p. 101; BM 2: 516, 6: 296; DNB 17: 167; DSB 4: 295. 1971; HU 2: 605 \[ind.\]; Langman p. 260; NDB 4: 356-357 (Nissen); NI see register, 2: 248; Plesch p. 217; PR 2641, 5408, 9499, 10447; SO 2831a, 2538, 2501a. - Pulteney, Sketches 2: 284-293. 1790. - Dryander, Cat. bibl. hist. nat. Banks 5: 223 \[index\]. 1800. - Spiess, Abh. naturh. Ges. Nürnberg 8: 162, 168, 193. 1891. - Britten, J. Bot. 34: 316-318. 1896 (portr.) - Druce, Fl Oxfordshire ed. 2. xci. 1927. - Earnest, J. and W. Bartram 92. 1940. - Blunt, The art of botanical illustration 143-150, 297. 1951. - Pirson, Mitt. Ver. Gesch. Stadt Nürnberg 44, 1953 (relations with Trew). - Schincke, Über das Kräuterbuch des Johann Wilhelm Weinmann 51-57. 1962. - Berkeley and Berkeley, Dr. Alexander Garden of Charles Town 373 \[ind.\] 1969. - Murdoch, G. D. Ehret, Botanical artist, a tribute to his genius, Kingussie, Invernessshire, 1970 (28 p.) (portr., bibl.) - Tjaden, J. Roy. Hort. Soc. 95(9): 385-389. 19705, 95(12): 534. 1970. - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 371 \[index\]. 1971. - Stafleu, *in* Daniels and Stafleu, Taxon 22: 292. 1973. - Daniels, Artists from the R.B.G. Kew 20-21. 1974 (portr.) #### Eponymy *Ehretia* P. Browne (1756); *Ehretiaecarpum* P. Menzel (1914). ### Publications ##### n.1644. Plantae et papiliones rariores **Title** *Plantae et papiliones rariores* depictae et aeri incisae. London \[1748-1759\]. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. papil. rar.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Consists of 15 hand-coloured engraved plates by Ehret. The plates are dated. The Arnold Arboretum copy (cf. Tucker) has three additional plates, numbered 16-18 and published in 1761-1762. *Copies*: BM, HH. *Ref*.: BM 2: 516, 523; DA 1967; DU 109; GF p. 56; Henrey 677; LS 7670; NI 583; PR 2641; RS p. 81; IDC 5918. - Tucker, Catalogue of the library of the Arnold Arboretum 1: 226. 1914 (*pl. 16-18*). - Blunt, Plantae et papiliones rariores, 12 coloured reproductions, Guildford 1953.