Plate A. XIII, from "Deliciae Naturae Selectae"
1751–67
Medium
Hand-colored engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 14 13/16 × 10 7/16 in. (37.7 × 26.5 cm) Sheet: 19 1/2 × 14 1/2 in. (49.5 × 36.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019
Accession Number
2019.282.31
About the Artist
Georg Wolfgang Knorr · 1705–1761
Georg Wolfgang Knorr (1705–1761) was a German engraver, naturalist, and scientific illustrator whose meticulously detailed copper plates revolutionized the visual documentation of natural history in the eighteenth century. Born and active in Nuremberg—one of Europe's preeminent centers for scientific publishing and printmaking—Knorr combined artistic virtuosity with scientific precision, creating ...