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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, means "trumpet."
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Document identity
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380062
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Study of a Tulip ('t roosje)
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drawing
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380062
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drawing
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Study of a Tulip ('t roosje)
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, means "trumpet."
date
c. 1645
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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43830
genreSpecific
Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 31.2 x 21 cm (12 5/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
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Netherlands
accession
2020.132
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Point of brush and transparent and opaque watercolors with traces of graphite and gum glazing on antique laid paper
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Study of a Tulip ('t roosje), c. 1645. Pieter Holsteyn II (Dutch, c.1612–1673). Point of brush and transparent and opaque watercolors with traces of graphite and gum glazing on antique laid paper; sheet: 31.2 x 21 cm (12 5/16 x 8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.132
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DR - Dutch
relatedWorks
id
80646
description
Study of a Tulip (Wit en root boode), c. 1645. Pieter Holsteyn II (Dutch, c.1612–1673). Point of brush and transparent and opaque watercolors with traces of graphite and gum glazing on antique laid paper; sheet: 31.2 x 20.6 cm (12 5/16 x 8 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.130
id
380061
description
Study of a Tulip (Anvaers), c. 1645. Pieter Holsteyn II (Dutch, c.1612–1673). Point of brush and transparent and opaque watercolors with traces of graphite and gum glazing on antique laid paper; sheet: 31.1 x 20.6 cm (12 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.131
id
380063
description
Study of a Tulip (Perregoen Machieu), c. 1645. Pieter Holsteyn II (Dutch, c.1612–1673). Point of brush and transparent and opaque watercolors with traces of graphite and gum glazing on antique laid paper; sheet: 36 x 27.3 cm (14 3/16 x 10 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.133
didYouKnow
In 17th-century Holland, some tulip bulbs were as expensive as a stately Amsterdam canal house.
citations
citation
Scallen, Catherine B. "Holsteyn and Prins." In <em>The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, </em>edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 32-37, 44-45. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.
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Mentioned and reproduced: p. 32-37; Mentioned: p. 264-265
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Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
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2026-06-11 12:17:40.714000
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380062
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Point of brush and transparent and opaque watercolors with traces of graphite and gum glazing on antique laid paper
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