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Last Name Jacquin

Given Name Nicolas / Nicolaus Joseph

alt. Names N. J. v. J. ; Nicolas Joseph / Nikolaus Josef Freiherr von Jacquin ;

Marriage

Children botanist/chemist Joseph Franz Freiherr von Jacquin (1766-1839); Emil Gottfried (1767-92); Franziska (1769-1850) pianist

Year born 1727 in Leiden, Netherlands

Year died 1817

Place of death Vienna

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education medicine, chemistry, and botany at the Universities of Leiden, Paris, and Vienna ;

Country of Activity Austria

Worked for N. J. v. J.: Florae Austriacae (1773-8) ; Icones Plantarum Rariorum [Abbildungen seltener Pflanzen] (Vienna 1781) ; Plantarum rariorum horti caesarei schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones (Vienna 1797)

Patronage Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor ; Franz I ;

Collaborators printer and fremason Christian Friedrich Wappler (1741–1807) ;

Techniques botanical drawing and watercolour painting ;

Sample(s) http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/irazumov/lectures/illustration/botanical/18thcentury.html ; http://plantillustrations.org/artist.php?id_artist=34&mobile=0 ;

Archival sources British Museum Natural History Banksian coll. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaus_Joseph_von_Jacquin ;

Published sources AKL ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 ; Walpole 1969: 5f. ; Johnston 1992: nos 463, 474, 500 & 539 ; J. F. v. J. In: Österreichisches Bio Lex 1815–1950 (ÖBL) 3,1965: 52 ; Sawyer 1971: 145 ; Wheeler 2003: 19, 48, 62, 152-3 ;

other Further Places of Activity: Netherlands, West Indies, and Central America.

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