Johann Jacob Haid or Johann Jakob Haid (1704 – 9 December 1767) was a German engraver who worked in

Augsburg Augsburg ( , ; ; ) is a city in the Bavaria, Bavarian part of Swabia, Germany, around west of the Bavarian capital Munich. It is a College town, university town and the regional seat of the Swabia (administrative region), Swabia with a well ...

Life and works

Haid came from a German family of artists and engravers and was known for large

mezzotint Mezzotint is a monochrome printmaking process of the intaglio (printmaking), intaglio family. It was the first printing process that yielded half-tones without using line- or dot-based techniques like hatching, cross-hatching or stipple. Mezzo ...

portraits. He worked in England, and it has been suggested that he borrowed from the work of Robert Robinson ( 1651 – 1706), who was a popular English mezzotint engraver, painter, and stage designer. Haid also produced botanical work after (1678–1754) and with Johann Elias Ridinger, and worked on

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (13 March 1683 Gardelegen, Germany – 1741), apothecary and botanist, is noted for his creation of the florilegium ''Phytanthoza iconographia'' between 1737 and 1745, an ambitious project which resulted in eight folio volu ...

's ''"Phytanthoza iconographia"''.

Selected works

Johann Jacob Haid - Boy with a Whistle - B1970.3.1400 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, Boy with a Whistle Johann Elias Ridinger.jpg, Portrait of Johann Elias Ridinger Alles ist eitel, Johann Jakob Haid.jpg, All is Vanity Johann Jacob Haid - Le depart de l'Enfant Prodigue - B1970.3.1404 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, Departure of the

Prodigal Son The Parable of the Prodigal Son (also known as the parable of the Two Brothers, Lost Son, Loving Father, or of the Forgiving Father; ) is one of the parables of Jesus in the Bible, appearing in Luke 15:11–32. In Luke 15, Jesus tells this stor ...

Johann Jacob Haid - Men Playing Cards - B1970.3.1410 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, Men Playing Cards Johann Jacob Haid - Le Chant - B1970.3.1392 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, The Song

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Haid, Johann Jakob 1704 births 1767 deaths Engravers from Augsburg 18th-century German engravers 18th-century German male artists