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 Abraham Jacobus Wendel in Dutch RKD
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),Abraham Jacobus Wendel in myheritage.comErfgoedleiden.nl Abraham Jacobus Johannes Wendel 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.).Database National Herbarium of the Netherlands (NHN, Naturalis Biodiversity Center), refer to List of artists in Category:Icones art collection at Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Publications
Books Botanical and paleontological art, including: 1847: , ; - Descriptions et figures des plantes nouvelles et rares : du Jardin Botanique de l'Université de Leide et des principaux jardins du royaume des Pays-BasDe Vriese, Trap & Arnz 1847: 1858: - Flora Javae et insularum adjacentium : and - Flora : afbeeldingen en beschrijvingen van boomen, heesters, éénjarige planten, enz., voorkomende in de Nederlandsche tuinen. Groningen: Wolters.Witte & Wendel 1868: . Images at Wikimedia Commons. See also: example image at Plantillustrations.org 1879: , 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. WorldCat entry for Wendel 1879 [187-]: Prentenboek / Adelborst., Leiden: D. Noothoven Van GoorWorldCat entry for Wendel - Adelborst 1894: - Pithecanthropus erectus: eine menschenähnliche Übergangsform aus Java. Batavia: Landesdruckerei.,WorldCat entry voor Dubois 1894 collaboration with his son Abraham Jacobus Johannes?
Portraits 1855: portrait van Antonius Niermeyer, university professor at Leiden UniversityPortrait of Niermeyer 1855
Maps : Kaart van Zuid-Afrika (Map of Boer War South Africa) in F. Lion Cachet: De worstelstrijd der Transvalers Map of South Africa ca. 1900
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