Johann Jakob Haid was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 engraver

Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing...

 who worked in Augsburg

Augsburg

Augsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a...

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

Mezzotint

Mezzotint is a printmaking process of the intaglio family, technically a drypoint method. It was the first tonal method to be used, enabling half-tones to be produced without using line- or dot-based techniques like hatching, cross-hatching or stipple...

 portraits.

He worked in England, and it has been suggested that he borrowed from the work of Robert Robinson

Robert Robinson

Robert Robinson may refer to:*Robert Robinson , Australian politician, of the Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1851–1853*Robert Robinson , Baptist Minister and scholar of Cambridge...

 (c. 1651 – 1706), who was a popular English mezzotint engraver, painter, and stage designer.

Haid also produced botanical work after Bartholomaus Seutter (1678–1754) and with Johann Ridinger.

External links

• Johann Jakob Haid at clevelandart.org