Lot 185: CRISPIJN DE PASSE THE YOUNGER COLOGNE CIRCA 1597 - 1670 AMSTERDAM

SEVEN HAND-COLOURED PRINTS OF TULIPS OF DIFFERENT VARIETIES

measurements note
each circa 205 by 140mm

each with printed inscription, identifying the variety of tulip

engraving with watercolour

Quantity: 7

NOTE

These prints are plates from De Passe's Hortus Floridus, a celebrated florilegium first published in 1614 (see Sam Segal, Flowers and Nature - Netherlandish Flower Painting of Four Centuries, exhibition catalogue, Osaka/Tokyo/Sydney 1990, pp. 165-6).