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Pepper (Piper nigrum) and Peony (Paeonia)
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Pepper (Piper nigrum) and Peony (Paeonia)

anonymous · 1640 · engraving; hand coloring; paper; ink; watercolor (paint)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Pepper and peony. A bird is in the pepper bush. Figs. 27 and 28 on a sheet hand-numbered 14. In: Anselmi Boëtii de Boot I.C. Brugensis & Rodolphi II. Imp. Roman. medici a cubiculis Florum, Herbarum, ac fructuum selectiorum icones, & vires pleraeque hactenus ignotæ. Part of the album with sheets and plates from De Boodt's herbarium of 1640. The twelfth of twelve albums with watercolors of animals, birds, and plants known around 1600, made on commission of Emperor Rudolf II.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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printbirdsflowers: peonyseasonings, spices (PEPPER)
Credit linePeper (Piper nigrum)en pioenroos (Paeonia). 1640. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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