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Blue Cynthia, Nigella, Gray Pyensin, Cranesbill, and Snake with Gooseberry Border, folio 22 (recto), from Florilegium (A Book of Flower Studies)

1608

France

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Medium
watercolor, ink, silver, and gold over occasional traces of pencil, on vellum
Measurements
Sheet: 31.1 x 20.2 cm (12 1/4 x 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the American Foundation for the Maud E. and Warren H. Corning Botanical Collection 1963.594.22.a
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Print
A vertically oriented drawing on vellum depicts an assortment of botanical specimens and a coiled snake. A blue cornflower and purple star-shaped flower bloom at the top near clusters of cone-shaped blue blossoms. Pink and dark purple flowers branch throughout the center, hovering over a small, brown-patterned snake coiled below. A thorny vine with translucent berries borders the bottom and right edges within simple red-lined frames.

Blue Cynthia, Nigella, Gray Pyensin, Cranesbill, and Snake with Gooseberry Border, folio 22 (recto), from Florilegium (A Book of Flower Studies)

1608

France

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