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Source Description
This image of a tulip was made as part of a tulip book used as a grower’s marketing tool during the so-called tulip mania, a speculative bubble in 17th-century Holland when ten tulip bulbs could cost more than a stately Amsterdam canal house. The striations on the tulip, which were caused by a virus in the bulb, made it especially valuable. Pieter Holsteyn II was one of many artists in the Netherlands at the time who specialized in botanical illustration. This tulip's Dutch name, inscribed on the sheet, translates to "Admiral Winckel." Winckel was the family name of one of the largest growers of tulips in the period.
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Document identity
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329318
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Study of a Tulip (Ammirael Winckel)
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drawing
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329318
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drawing
title
Study of a Tulip (Ammirael Winckel)
description
This image of a tulip was made as part of a tulip book used as a grower’s marketing tool during the so-called tulip mania, a speculative bubble in 17th-century Holland when ten tulip bulbs could cost more than a stately Amsterdam canal house. The striations on the tulip, which were caused by a virus in the bulb, made it especially valuable. Pieter Holsteyn II was one of many artists in the Netherlands at the time who specialized in botanical illustration. This tulip's Dutch name, inscribed on the sheet, translates to "Admiral Winckel." Winckel was the family name of one of the largest growers of tulips in the period.
date
c. 1645
citation
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q79876007
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43830
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Drawing
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1
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Sheet: 31.9 x 21.3 cm (12 9/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
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Netherlands
accession
2019.4
Source extras
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brush and watercolors in crimson, grey and green over traces of charcoal on antique laid paper
tombstone
Study of a Tulip (Ammirael Winckel), c. 1645. Pieter Holsteyn II (Dutch, c.1612–1673). Brush and watercolors in crimson, grey and green over traces of charcoal on antique laid paper; sheet: 31.9 x 21.3 cm (12 9/16 x 8 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2019.4
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DR - Dutch
inscriptions
inscription
Recto, Ammirael Winckel. in black ink
inscription
Bottom border, cut off, Ammirael Winck in brown in (different hand)
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brown ink inscription is likely artist’s notation to the calligrapher, which was intended to be cut off when bound
inscription
Verso: J Morel and 31 and 31 in graphite
didYouKnow
In 17th-century Holland, some tulip bulbs were as expensive as a stately Amsterdam canal house!
citations
citation
RKD # 216643, (Rijksbureau Kunstdocumentatie, The Hague)
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John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 08:56:31.638000
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329318
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DR - Dutch
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brush and watercolors in crimson, grey and green over traces of charcoal on antique laid paper
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male
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