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),^[2][3] 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.).^[4]

Books edit

Botanical and paleontological art, including:

• 1847: Vriese, Willem Hendrik de, Trap, Pieter Willem Marinus; Arnz, A. - Descriptions et figures des plantes nouvelles et rares : du Jardin Botanique de l'Université de Leide et des principaux jardins du royaume des Pays-Bas^[5]
• 1858: Blume, Carl Ludwig - Flora Javae et insularum adjacentium
• [1868]: Witte, H. and A.J. Wendel - Flora : afbeeldingen en beschrijvingen van boomen, heesters, éénjarige planten, enz., voorkomende in de Nederlandsche tuinen. Groningen: Wolters.^[6]
• 1879: Koster, Arie, Ottolander, K. J. W. et al. - Nederlandsche Flora en Pomona, beschreven en uitgegeven door het bestuur der Pomologische Vereeniging te Boskoop. (Redactie: K.J.W. Ottolander, A. Koster, C. de Vos.) Met platen naar de natuur geteekend door A.J. Wendel. Groningen: Wolters.^[7]
• [187-]: Prentenboek / Adelborst., Leiden: D. Noothoven Van Goor^[8]
• 1894: Dubois, Eugène - Pithecanthropus erectus: eine menschenähnliche Übergangsform aus Java. Batavia: Landesdruckerei.,^[9] collaboration with his son Abraham Jacobus Johannes?

Portraits edit

• 1855: portrait van Antonius Niermeyer, university professor at Leiden University^[10]

Maps edit

• [1900]: Kaart van Zuid-Afrika (Map of Boer War South Africa) in F. Lion Cachet: De worstelstrijd der Transvalers [1900]^[11]

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