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Sheet from a Tulip Book
Also titled Blad uit een tulpenboek
Jacob Marrel (Frankenthal, 1614–1681)
c. 1640
- Medium
- parchment (animal material), watercolor (paint), gouache (paint)
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 340 mm x width 449 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Flowers were costly, and tulips the costliest of all. Tulip bulbs were avidly collected in the 17th century and large sums changed hands for unusual specimens. The tulip book’s exact function is not known. It could have been a catalogue from which an interested buyer made his selection, or a drawn inventory of a collection of tulips.
