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Heather (Erica tetralix) and broom (Spartium junceum)

anonymous · 1604 - 1632 · engraving; hand coloring; paper; ink; watercolor (paint)

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

About this work

Gorse and broom (or furze). With a bee. Figs. 29 and 30 on a sheet hand-numbered 16. 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 watercolours of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, made on commission of Emperor Rudolf II.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description

Subjects

print flowers: Spanish broom insects: bee

Credit lineDopheide (Erica tetralix) en bezemstruik (Spartium junceum). 1604 - 1632. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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