Abraham Jacobus Wendel

• Name — Abraham Jacobus Wendel • Birth Name — Abraham Jacobus Wendel • Born — 31 October 1826 • Birthplace — Leiden • Died — 23 September 1915 • Place of death — Leiden • Field — lithography, botanical art • Illustration — Viola tricolor by A.J. Wendel • Illustration — Hibiscus syriacus L. by A.J. Wendel

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.).

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

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

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