Tulipa cultivar 'La Monstreuse 'La Monstreuse' tulip

by Jean-Charles Verbrugge

$1,800 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Provenance: Baron Joseph van Huerne gift to his grandson - Joseph de Pelichy - Eyre & Hobhouse exhibition: The Discovery of Nature, London 1983, item 59 . This very fine original botanical watercolour is taken from a compilation of drawings made by Baron Joseph van Huerne in Belgium between about 1790 and 1820, which certainly included 135 and probably about 170 original watercolour and gouache drawings bound in four albums, each with a manuscript title page 'Collection du Regne

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