Florilegium: (page 21 recto) blue cynthia, nigella, gray pyensin, and cranesbill, with gooseberry border
1608
Maker Unknown
Drawings
Florilegium: (page 21 recto) blue cynthia, nigella, gray pyensin, and cranesbill, with gooseberry border, 1608. France, 17th century. 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.ff
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Bound Volume
- Formatted Medium
- bound manuscript of 48 leaves, 77 drawings; watercolor, ink, silver and gold over occasional traces of pencil, on vellum
- Medium
- bound, manuscript, leaves, drawings, watercolor, ink, silver, gold, over, occasional, traces, pencil, vellum
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 31.1 x 20.2 cm (12 1/4 x 7 15/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: 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).
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1963.594.ff
- Credit Line
- Gift of the American Foundation for the Maud E. and Warren H. Corning Botanical Collection
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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