Title

'Tulips', 1798. Creator: Philip Reinagle.

Caption

'Tulips', 1798. Series of botanical illustrations in Dr. Robert John Thornton's Temple of Flora with flowers shown against brooding romantic backgrounds. Originally cultivated in the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey), tulips were imported into Holland in the sixteenth century. In the mid-seventeenth century, tulips were so popular that they created the first economic bubble, known as "Tulip Mania" (tulipomania).

Date

1798

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19F02_444

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

51,3Mb (2,6Mb) / 12,3in x 16,2in / 3689 x 4858 (300dpi)

Keywords

nature countryside close up season black red flower flowers plant yellow tulip tulips stem science white spring color colourful dramatic botanical location century bulb variety concept botany close-up tulipa various Colour perennial 18th century Eighteenth Century illustration mezzotint still life white colour black colour Philip Reinagle Reinagle Philip National Museum of Wales Robert John Thornton Thornton Robert John Dr Robert John Thornton mezzotint still life