BESLER, Basilius

Tulipa

Stock Code 89972

Nuremberg [1713]

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Plate size: 50cm x 44 cm
A magnificent plate from "Hortus Eystettensis", one of the earliest and most famous works in this field. The Hortus Eystettensis is a magnificent pictorial record of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, that of Prince Bishop of Eichstatt, Johann Conrad von Gemmingen.

Copper-engraving, with fine later hand-colour,

Nissen 158; Pritzel 745; Hunt 430; Blunt, pp 95-97; Stafleu & Cowan 497.

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