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139837
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Florilegium (A Book of Flower Studies)
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139837
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Florilegium (A Book of Flower Studies)
date
1608
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CC0
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en
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Q80037231
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Bound Volume
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1
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Sheet: 31.1 x 20.2 cm (12 1/4 x 7 15/16 in.)
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France
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1963.594
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bound manuscript of 48 leaves, 77 drawings; watercolor, ink, silver, and gold over occasional traces of pencil, on vellum
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Florilegium (A Book of Flower Studies), 1608. France. Bound manuscript of 48 leaves, 77 drawings; watercolor, ink, silver, and gold over occasional traces of pencil, on vellum; sheet: 31.1 x 20.2 cm (12 1/4 x 7 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the American Foundation for the Maud E. and Warren H. Corning Botanical Collection, 1963.594
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vellum
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DR - French
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Dated: Poitiers 1608 (on frontispiece)
Signed: On frontispiece in black ink, lower right: Van Kuyk
Notation on drawing: Frontispiece: in pencil, lower margin: * élève de Van Kessel, peintre flammand (* in pencil also appears in front of Van Kuyk's name).
citations
citation
Henning, Edward B. “Annual Report for 1963.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 51, no. 6 (1964).
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pp. 136, 139
citation
“Year in Review for 1964.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 51, no. 10 (1965).
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no. 147, p. 245
citation
Webb, Sheila, and Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Paper, the Continuous Thread</em>. Cleveland, OH: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.
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Mentioned: p. 17, 66, no. 3; Reproduced: p. 19
citation
Glaubinger, Jane. "Flower Power: The history of botanical prints has deep roots.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 56, no. 3 (May/June 2016): 10-12.
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Reproduced: p. 12; Mentioned: p. 11, 12
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Gift of the American Foundation for the Maud E. and Warren H. Corning Botanical Collection
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2026-05-29 07:10:24.434000
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bound manuscript of 48 leaves, 77 drawings; watercolor, ink, silver, and gold over occasional traces of pencil, on vellum
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