# 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

## 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), 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.).

## 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
* 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.
* 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.
* [187-]: Prentenboek / Adelborst., Leiden: D. Noothoven Van Goor
* 1894: Dubois, Eugène - Pithecanthropus erectus: eine menschenähnliche Übergangsform aus Java. Batavia: Landesdruckerei., collaboration with his son Abraham Jacobus Johannes?

### Portraits

* 1855: portrait van Antonius Niermeyer, university professor at Leiden University

### Maps

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

## Gallery

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

## Footnote

* ↑ Abraham Jacobus Wendel in Dutch RKD
* ↑ Abraham Jacobus Wendel in myheritage.com
* ↑ Erfgoedleiden.nl Abraham Jacobus Johannes Wendel
* ↑ Database National Herbarium of the Netherlands (NHN, Naturalis Biodiversity Center), refer to List of artists in Category:Icones art collection at Naturalis Biodiversity Center
* ↑ De Vriese, Trap & Arnz 1847: OCLC 15926916 (all editions)
* ↑ Witte & Wendel 1868: OCLC 67458116 (all editions). Images at Wikimedia Commons. See also: example image at Plantillustrations.org
* ↑ WorldCat entry for Wendel 1879
* ↑ WorldCat entry for Wendel - Adelborst
* ↑ WorldCat entry voor Dubois 1894
* ↑ Portrait of Niermeyer 1855
* ↑ Map of South Africa ca. 1900