The engraving of “Amomum zerumbet” (commonly known as Zerumbet ginger) was published in the”Hortus Botanicus Vindobonensis”, specifically within the volumes produced around 1776.
“Hortus Botanicus Vindobonensis” (Botanical Garden of Vienna), was published in three volumes from 1770 to 1776 and is a description of plants at the university's botanical garden. Included in this work are 300 hand-coloured copper engravings by Franz von Scheidel.
Overall, he produced several thousands of drawings of plants, fish, birds and mammals for Jacquin and many other patrons.
This publication was a major collaboration between Leopold Johann Kaliwoda, the publisher based in Vienna who printed the work, Franz Anton von Scheidl, the artist responsible for the original botanical drawings and Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, the renowned botanist who authored the descriptions for the series.
The print is a line engraving by von Scheidl with etching and watercolour, depicting a flowering stem with its rhizome and inflorescence.
Franz Anton von Scheidl was a German natural history artist, noted for his botanical illustrations featured in the publications of Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin.
The main botanical publications from Kaliwoda's press featuring Scheidl's illustrations include the “Hortus Botanicus Vindobonensis” (1770–1776) and the “Florae Austriacae” (1773–1778), a multi-volume work providing descriptions and coloured icons of plants growing naturally in Austria.
