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Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann - Pentandria Mon. [Pittosporum viridiflorum]

Pentandria Mon. [Pittosporum viridiflorum] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
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The Artist died in 1835 so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries where the copyright term is the Artist's life plus 70 years or fewer.
About the Artist

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann, a German soldier, artist and naturalist arrived in the Cape Colony in the service of the Dutch East India Company in 1784, and was probably a member of the Württemberg Regiment. Wehdemann was the son of a church minister and enjoyed a sound education.

During the British occupation (1795-1803) he gave drawing classes, and with the Dutch reoccupation (1803-1806) he re-entered army service. With the British reoccupation of the Cape, he settled at Plettenberg Bay in the Eastern Cape, collecting botanical specimens for Joseph Mackrill (1762-1820), a practitioner with a special interest in medicinal plants. Mackrill established a garden and trial ground for crops in Somerset East, occasionally sending herbarium material to the British Museum.

Wehdemanne developed an interest in indigenous trees and produced a number of sets of annotated paintings, some of species new to science. Two of these ended up in the libraries of the Natural History Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one with the National Botanical Institute in Pretoria and one with the Parliamentary Library in Cape Town. In addition to these he prepared hinged, book-like boxes, the wood and bark forming the box, and its contents, all being from the same tree species; the contents consisting of fruit and seeds, pressed leaves and flowers, together with drawings or paintings and a description. Similar boxes were to be found only in Japan and Europe.

Wehdemann died destitute on the Baviaans River farm "Lichtenstein" belonging to his friend, Ludwig Krebs, the noted Prussian collector. He was commemorated in Ichthyosma wehdemanni Schltdl. in the Balanophoraceae, which turned out to be a synonym of Sarcophyte sanguinea Sparrm.

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Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

2 species of Carisfa arduina [Carissa haematocarpa] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

Hibiscus [Hibiscus calyphyllus] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

Cucumis, Melothria pendula [Coccinea quinqueloba] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

Didinamia angiosperma [Harveya hyobanchoides] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

Schotia speciosa [Schotia afra] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

Amarillis [Crinum lineare] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

Capparis Nov. Sp. [Maerua caffra] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

Cleome juncea. [Cadaba aphylla] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

Nymphaea coerulea [Nymphaea nouchali] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

More Illustrations in Book: Drawings of plants collected at Cape Town (View all 50)

Gloriosa [Gloriosa superba] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

2 species of Carisfa arduina [Carissa haematocarpa] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

Hibiscus [Hibiscus calyphyllus] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

Cucumis, Melothria pendula [Coccinea quinqueloba] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

Didinamia angiosperma [Harveya hyobanchoides] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

Schotia speciosa [Schotia afra] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

Amarillis [Crinum lineare] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

Capparis Nov. Sp. [Maerua caffra] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

Cleome juncea. [Cadaba aphylla] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

Nymphaea coerulea [Nymphaea nouchali] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

Veltheimia viridifolia [Veltheimia bracteata] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)

Cyrtanthus [Clivia nobilis] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
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