(Centuria V.)
This is a late eighteenth-century botanical plate volume, Centuria V, produced by Joseph Jacob von Plenck and issued by Viennese publishers in 1792 for botanists and medical readers. The hand-coloured copperplate engravings show flowering stems with leaves, fruit and dissected flower parts, labelled with Latin and German names. A designer could take their precise line work, pale washed colour and the tidy arrangement of a main specimen with small analytical details beside it.
