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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 roughly to "marriage of jasper stone."
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Document identity
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329319
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Study of a Tulip (Gemarmerde van Jasper)
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drawing
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1
Source metadata
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329319
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drawing
title
Study of a Tulip (Gemarmerde van Jasper)
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 roughly to "marriage of jasper stone."
date
c. 1645
citation
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q79876009
creators
43830
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 32 x 21.1 cm (12 5/8 x 8 5/16 in.)
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Netherlands
accession
2019.5
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brush and watercolor in crimson, gray, and green over traces of charcoal on antique laid paper
tombstone
Study of a Tulip (Gemarmerde van Jasper), c. 1645. Pieter Holsteyn II (Dutch, c.1612–1673). Brush and watercolor in crimson, gray, and green over traces of charcoal on antique laid paper; sheet: 32 x 21.1 cm (12 5/8 x 8 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2019.5
collection
DR - Dutch
inscriptions
inscription
recto, Gemarmerde van Jasper. in black ink
inscription
brown ink inscription in different hand cut off, lower border
inscription
verso, Morel and 7/79/36 and 40 and 42 and 36 in graphite
inscription
watermark: pelican within wreath
didYouKnow
In 17th-century Holland, some tulip bulbs were as expensive as a stately Amsterdam canal house!
citations
citation
RKD # 218032, (Rijksbureau Kunstdocumentatie, The Hague)
citation
Segal, Sam, in Van der Goes/Jenzen et al. <em>Tulipomanie: die Tulpe in der Kunst des 16. Und 17. Jahrhunderts.</em> Dresden: Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden, 2004
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p. 31-32, fig. 19
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John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 08:56:31.565000
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329319
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Drawings
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DR - Dutch
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brush and watercolor in crimson, gray, and green over traces of charcoal on antique laid paper
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male
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