Wandelaar, Jan, Warmond, Title page for: C. Linnaeus, Hortus Cliffortianus, 1738, Various allegorical figures in the garden of George Clifford, Allegorical title page with in the middle the 'earth mother' Cybele, seated on a lion and a lioness, with the keys to the garden in her hand. At her feet a pot with Cliffortia ilicifolia and next to it a map of the garden of the Hartekamp. On the left an African woman offers her an Aloe from Africa, a woman with a turban brings her a plant of the Coffea arabica from Asia and an Indian offers Hernandia from America. On a pedestal with the title in Latin, a bust of George Clifford(?). On the right a banana plant in bloom, and Apollo, who holds a torch in his left hand and lifts Diana's veil with his right hand. With his feet he tramples the dragon of untruth, a reference to the fake Hydra in Hamburg that Linnaeus had exposed as a fraud on his journey to Holland. On the right in the foreground two putti with a thermometer and a spade., print, engraving, title page, prints, height 348 mm, width 222 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1690-04-14 - 1759-03-26, print maker, printmaker, 1738 - 1738, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving (printing process), Work conception, after own design by

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