Jean-Christophe Heyland

Forsythia viridissima
Flourensia laurifolia
Icones selectae plantarum, vol. 4: t. 35 (1839)

Jean-Christophe [Kumpfler] Heyland (1791 Frankfurt – 29 August 1866 Genoa), was a Swiss engraver, watercolourist, and illustrator, who produced the plates for many botanical works such as the 1825-27 Plantes Rares du Jardin de Geneve by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle.[1] He lived in Geneva from 1803, and produced all illustrations for botanical memoirs published by Geneva botanists after 1820.[2] He also illustrated the work of Benjamin Delessert, Philip Barker-Webb, Giuseppe Giacinto Moris, Pierre Edmond Boissier and others.[3]

  1. ^ "Jean-Christophe Heyland". SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland.
  2. ^ Memoires, Volume 5 of "Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève" - Imprimerie A. L. Vignier, Rue de Rhone, Maison de la Poste, 1832
  3. ^ "Antiquariaat Junk".