Franz Anton von Scheidel
Franz Anton von Scheidel was a German natural history artist, noted for his botanical illustrations of Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin's Hortus botanicus Vindobonensis, which was published in three fascicles 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.
Von Scheidel undertook several thousand drawings of plants, fish, birds and mammals for Jacquin and many other patrons.Gallery
