Four Tulips: Boter man (Butter Man), Joncker (Nobleman), Grote geplumaceerde (The Great Plumed One), and Voorwint (With the Wind), ca. 1635–45, watercolor on vellum, sheet (c.): 13 3/8 x 17 11/16 in. (34 x 44.9 cm), Drawings, Jacob Marrel (German, Frankenthal 1613/14–1681 Frankfurt am Main), This watercolor on vellum is a remarkable document of a fascinating moment in botanical and economic history, involving a venerated flower and its trade on the stock market. It depicts four different tulip cultivars, each clearly named (Boter man, Joncker, Grote geplumaceerde, Voorwint) and beautifully rendered to record the prized bloom
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Four Tulips, Boter man, Butter Man, Joncker, Nobleman, Grote geplumaceerde, Great Plumed, Voorwint, Wind, ca, 1635–45, watercolor, vellum, sheet, 13 3/8 x 17 11/16, 34 44.9 cm, Drawings, Jacob Marrel, German, Frankenthal, 1613/14–1681, Frankfurt am Main, remarkable document, fascinating moment, botanical, economic history, involving, venerated flower, trade, stock market, depicts four, different, tulip, cultivars, beautifully rendered, record, prized bloom
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