The indomitable Herr Kerner and his 144 bunches of grapes…
It is believed that only two copies of Johann Simon Kerner’s Le Raisin, ses espèces et variétées… were completed, but then this German botanist did make it hard work for himself in choosing to illustrate it with original watercolours.
During the years 1803-15 he produced 12 sections or livraisons, each with a vignette of grapes and a…