Sheet from a Tulip Book

Sheet from a Tulip Book

RP-T-1967-86

?/32(?)

Flowers were costly, and tulips the costliest of all. Tulip bulbs were avidly collected in the 17th century and large sums changed hands for unusual specimens. The tulip book’s exact function is not known. It could have been a catalogue from which an interested buyer made his selection, or a drawn inventory of a collection of tulips.

Jaarverslag 1967, p. 90.

draughtsman: Jacob Marrel

c. 1640

penseel in waterverf, pen in bruin, gouache, op perkament

height 340 mm x width 449 mm

Titel is correct (2010-09-20)

purchase 1967

Public domain

Jaarverslag 1967, p. 90.

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