The draftsmen and the engraver employed by leonhart fuchs (1501-1566) to illustrate 'de historia stirpium: “albrecht meyer drew the specimens from life and heinrich füllmauer copied them onto woodblocks, which were engraved by veit rudolf speckle. Presumably the team was also responsible for these portraits. Fuchs’s work is one of the first scientific works to identify artists involved in its production, and may be the first to include their portraits. ” (norman library). Date: 1542.
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