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    "localId": "329319",
    "label": "Study of a Tulip (Gemarmerde van Jasper)",
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    "id": "329319",
    "contentType": "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": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.5",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 32 x 21.1 cm (12 5/8 x 8 5/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
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    "tec": "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)",
            "url": "https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/images/record?query=Holsteyn+Jasper&start=1"
        },
        {
            "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",
            "page_number": "p. 31-32, fig. 19"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.5",
    "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:56:31.565000",
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    "med": "brush and watercolor in crimson, gray, and green over traces of charcoal on antique laid paper",
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