Caption
Floral composition; Frederik de Wit ca. 1630–1706 young; engraver Jeremias Falck ca. 1609–1677; flowers; Dutch; albums; pattern books; decoration patterns; botany; Falck, Florum Icones, 1662 — illustration; roses; Polish; chrysanthemums; mallows; snowdrops; French graphics; after 1662; Amsterdam; album; height 20.7 cm; width 15.0 cm, The image shows a sheet with a series of botanical ink drawings of different flowers and leaves arranged across the page; the paper is a warm beige with an aged, slightly mottled appearance and small darker spots, while the drawings themselves are rendered in dark brown or black lines. Visible are a tall trumpet-shaped flower with long curved leaves, a slender drooping bud with narrow leaves, a densely petaled round blossom atop a thin stem with a cluster of long, slender leaves beneath it, a simple open flower with rounded petals and a bud on a branching stem with heart-shaped leaves, and a larger layered blossom with elongated petals accompanied by a small compound leaf with several leaflets. The overall composition is vertical, with light margins around the edges and subtle rectangular border lines faintly visible.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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LZT26A33_179
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72.3Mb (5.8Mb) / 14.0in x 20.0in / 4210 x 6000 (300dpi)