Naturalis Dispositio Echinodermatum (Natural Arrangement of Echinoderms) Pl.13 (1734)

Dated 1734, "Naturalis Dispositio Echinodermatum (Natural Arrangement of Echinoderms) Pl.13" is an artwork by Jacob Theodor Klein. Context for 1734: In Japan, ukiyo-e woodblock printing flourished in the Edo period and made colour prints a popular and affordable art form. The Enlightenment and the habit of the Grand Tour fed a wider interest in science, travel, antiquity, and natural history, and illustrators accompanied many expeditions. The catalogue places it in Illustration. The format is portrait. Illustration, a short history: The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are often described as a golden age of book and magazine illustration. Illustration serves a text or a story, a tradition that runs from decorated medieval manuscripts to printed book plates, magazines, and posters.

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German, 1685–1759

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