Two tulips – Hendrik Leffert Meyling after Paul Theodor van Brussel, 1794
€450
Two tulips with a caterpillar and a beetle (plaat XXXX). Copper engraving by Hendrik Leffert Meyling after a drawing by Paul Theodor van Brussel (1754-1795), published in 1794 by Jan Barend Elwe as part of his “Nederlandsch Bloemwerk“. With original hand colouring. Size (plate mark): 20,5 x 15,5 cm.
The breeding and distribution of tulips, hyacinths and auriculas was the most lucrative area of horticulture during much of the eighteenth century, and by the closing decades the Dutch were the acknowledged leaders in this field. The “Nederlandsch Bloemwerk” work was produced as a sampler of the wide range of varieties that were available, but it also takes a backward glance at the art of the gardener and the flower-painter of a century and a half earlier. Many of the illustrations are close copies of the plates from the “Variae ac multiformes florum species” (published in Paris around 1660) by Nicolas Robert (1614-1685).
Price: Euro 450,-
