Study of a Tulip (’t Roosje)

Pieter Holsteyn II made this watercolour around 1645 for a tulip book, a grower’s marketing tool during the so-called tulip mania, a speculative bubble in 17th-century Holland when ten bulbs could cost more than a stately Amsterdam canal house. The flame-like striations, caused by a virus in the bulb, made a tulip especially valuable. The variety’s Dutch name is inscribed on the sheet.

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