Abraham Jacobus Wendel

Abraham Jacobus Wendel (Leiden, 31 October 1826 – Leiden, 23 September 1915) was a Dutch lithographer, draughtsman and scientific botanical and paleontological illustrator using the signature AW and A. J. Wendel ^[1]

Abraham Jacobus Wendel
Born	Abraham Jacobus Wendel (1826-10-31)31 October 1826 Leiden
Died	23 September 1915(1915-09-23) (aged 88) Leiden
Known for	lithography, botanical art

Viola tricolor by A.J. Wendel

Hibiscus syriacus L. by A.J. Wendel

Life and work

Abraham Jacobus Wendel was born in 1826 in Leiden, the son of Jacobus Cornelis Wendel (1796-1860) and Johanna Vegt (1801-1869). In 1849 he married Jannetje Koolen (1826-1904) and had six children, including Abraham Jacobus Johannes Wendel (Leiden, 9 July 1854 - 3 April 1930),^[2][3] who became a lithographer and botanical artist in his own right, using signature AJJW. His father Abraham Jacobus Wendel created the botanical illustrations for many books and scientific journal articles. He was a lithographer with the printing house Arntz & Co. in Leiden, and made the illustrations for W. H. De Vriese et al. Descriptions et figures des plantes nouvelles et rares (1847). In 1887 he worked with Boek- en steendrukkerij P.W.M. Trap in Leiden: both Wendel and Trap are acknowledged in volumes 6 and 7 of the Annales du Jardin botanique de Buitenzorg (Ann.Jard.Bot.Btzg.).^[4]

Publications

Books

Botanical and paleontological art, including:

• 1847: Vriese, Willem Hendrik de, Trap, Pieter Willem Marinus; Arnz, A. - Descriptions et figures des plantes nouvelles et rares : du Jardin Botanique de l'Université de Leide et des principaux jardins du royaume des Pays-Bas^[5]
• 1858: Blume, Carl Ludwig - Flora Javae et insularum adjacentium
• [1868]: Witte, H. and A.J. Wendel - Flora : afbeeldingen en beschrijvingen van boomen, heesters, éénjarige planten, enz., voorkomende in de Nederlandsche tuinen. Groningen: Wolters.^[6]
• 1879: Koster, Arie, Ottolander, K. J. W. et al. - Nederlandsche Flora en Pomona, beschreven en uitgegeven door het bestuur der Pomologische Vereeniging te Boskoop. (Redactie: K.J.W. Ottolander, A. Koster, C. de Vos.) Met platen naar de natuur geteekend door A.J. Wendel. Groningen: Wolters.^[7]
• [187-]: Prentenboek / Adelborst., Leiden: D. Noothoven Van Goor^[8]
• 1894: Dubois, Eugène - Pithecanthropus erectus: eine menschenähnliche Übergangsform aus Java. Batavia: Landesdruckerei.,^[9] collaboration with his son Abraham Jacobus Johannes?

Portraits

• 1855: portrait van Antonius Niermeyer, university professor at Leiden University^[10]

Maps

• [1900]: Kaart van Zuid-Afrika (Map of Boer War South Africa) in F. Lion Cachet: De worstelstrijd der Transvalers [1900]^[11]

Gallery

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  Chaenomeles speciosa by A. J. Wendel from his book with H. Witte: Flora: ... voorkomende in de Nederlandsche tuinen, [1868]
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  Iris ensata, idem, [1868]
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  Viburnum plicatum, idem, [1868]
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  Kerria japonica, idem, [1868]
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  Wisteria sinensis, idem, [1868]
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  Cymbidium lancifolium by A. J. Wendel
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  Paeonia tenuifolia by A.J. Wendel
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  Orchid 2 from Carl Ludwig Blume Flora Javae et insularum adjacentium, 1858, by A.J. Wendel
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  Orchid 5 idem
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  Orchid 6 idem
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  Orchid 28 idem
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  Kaart van Zuid-Afrika (Map of Boer War South Africa), by A.J. Wendel in F. Lion Cachet: De worstelstrijd der Transvalers [1900]