The cover is the Semper Augustus, the white tulip streaked with red that became the most expensive flower of the Dutch tulip mania. The price is written next to it in the old hand: 3000 guilders, more than a canal house. Pages like this came from tulip books, the watercolour catalogues bulb traders showed to buyers, since the flowers themselves were underground most of the year.
This edition reproduces the whole of the Six family's tulip book, the only seventeenth century tulip catalogue to survive complete, with the watercolours Jacob Marrel made for it and essays by Geert Mak and Sam Segal.
Author / Editor: Nathalie Maciesza, Geert Mak, Sam Segal
Publisher: Collection Six, Amsterdam
Period: 2019
Pages: 242 pages
Language: English
The cover is the Semper Augustus, the white tulip streaked with red that became the most expensive flower of the Dutch tulip mania. The price is written next to it in the old hand: 3000 guilders, more than a canal house. Pages like this came from tulip books, the watercolour catalogues bulb traders showed to buyers, since the flowers themselves were underground most of the year.
This edition reproduces the whole of the Six family's tulip book, the only seventeenth century tulip catalogue to survive complete, with the watercolours Jacob Marrel made for it and essays by Geert Mak and Sam Segal.
Author / Editor: Nathalie Maciesza, Geert Mak, Sam Segal
Publisher: Collection Six, Amsterdam
Period: 2019
Pages: 242 pages
Language: English
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