Sturm, Jakob Jnr.(1771-1848)

Germany. Son of Johann Georg Sturm.

Nuremberg engraver Sturm was the son of Johann Georg Sturm, also a Nuremberg engraver. Jacob Sturm was the most famous engraver of natural history publications in Germany at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century.

Engraver for C.Gaertner�s Supplement to De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1805-1807). Jakob Sturm was a major engraver for Deuschlands Flora during the 1800s.

Also listed as a Diptera taxonomist ?

Sources: M.Rix The Art of the Plant World (1981); W.Blunt & W.T.Stearn The Art of Botanical Illustration 2^nd edn (1994); H.Hewson (1999).
George, Alex (2011) A Banksia Album – two hundred years of botanical art, National Library of Australia, Canberra

Portrait: Google Images, dates and names checked 2012.