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An outstanding copper-plate engraving of the
LILIUM & FRITTILLARIA 1646.
by Emanuel SWEERT Jan JANSSON
Florilegium. Amsterdam 1647. Copper engraving. Later colour. Fine condition, good margins. Size: 16 x 21 inches including mount (matt). The matt has han applied wash lines and gold highlight strips. Please accept my apologies for some blurry photos - the engraving is impressively crisp in real life. Four species of conifer showing branches, needles and berries. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in 1612 -1614. It was originally a sales catalogue for plants and bulbs from Sweert's gardens, to be sold at fairs in Frankfurt and Amsterdam, but now these very attractive engravings are regarded as fine examples of 17th century botanical illustration and are much collected.
Emanuel Sweert
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Emanuel Sweert
Sweert lived in a period when new plants from across the world were being introduced to Europe via Dutch, English and French ships. To meet the burgeoning interest in plants by the public, nurseries were being established by wealthy merchants in order to meet the demand. Botanical illustration suddenly found a new outlet in the production of nursery catalogues. Sweert prepared his Florilegium as a guide of his available stock for the Frankfurt Fair of 1612. The plates, depicting some 560 bulbs and flowers, were from the
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(1552, Zevenbergen - 1612, Amsterdam), was a Dutch painter and nurseryman noted for his publication in 1612 at Frankfurt-am-Main of Florilegium Amplissumum et Selectissimum.Johann Theodore de Bry Florilegium which in turn was based on that by Pierre Vallet. His attractively depicted bulbs sparked their popularity, leading to 6 editions of the work between 1612 and 1647, and a demand which would later result in "Tulipomania". At the time of the fair Sweert was in the employ of Emperor Rudolf II as head of his gardens in Vienna. He borrowed freely from plates that had been published before, so that many of those that appeared in the Florilegium had been cultivated in Henry IV's gardens at the Louvre. copied from http://www.sulit.com.ph/index.php/view+classifieds/id/1296395/Emanuel+SWEERT+Jan+JANSSON++LILIUM+%26+FRITTILLARIA+1646
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