Pieter Holsteyn II · c. 1645
This image of a tulip was made as part of a tulip book used as a grower’s marketing tool during the so-called tulip mania, a speculative bubble in 17th-century Holland, when ten tulip bulbs could cost more than a stately Amsterdam canal house.
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Marigolds, single Anemone, Jasmine. . . .Jean-Baptiste I Monnoyer · c. 1680–95
Pasture RosePierre-Joseph Redouté · 1817–24
Polyanthus or Cluster NarcissusPancrace Bessa · 1836
Large Flowering Sensitive Plant, Plate 16Joseph Constantine Stadler · 1799
Chinese FlowerMary Altha Nims · 1800s
The Botanical Magazine or Flower Garden Displayed: Smooth-stalked Martagon, Turk's Cap LiS. Curtis · 1814
Fruit Arrangement: Peaches and Plumbs on a Slab of MarbleGeorg Dionysius Ehret · 1742
The Botanical Magazine or Flower Garden Displayed: Umbel-Flowering Bulb-Bearing Orange-LiThomas Curtis · 1807
Star FlowerMary Altha Nims · 1800s
The Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature: The Pontic RhododendronRobert John Thornton · 1799–1807
BouquetJean-Baptiste I Monnoyer · c. 1680–95
Spray of FlowersRoubillac · c. 1774–1800
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