drawing;
album;
print
- Museum number
- 1888,1211.1.1-74
- Description
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Album bound in red leather with gilt ruling and gold tooling, stamped on the front cover "E A/1660" and on the back "A C A", containing 73 numbered vellum leaves with drawings and 23 unnumbered guarded blank vellum leaves, each with additional manuscript numbers 1-99 (apart from one leaf with no manuscript number and 4 leaves missing), interleaved with unnumbered paper leaves, also one numbered vellum drawing laid down on paper, and a section 12 paper leaves at the back (one numbered in manuscript 100); the first 2 leaves with an index tipped in; with botanical illustrations of flowers (including fox-gloves and tiger lillies) and the coat-of-arms of the Anckelmann family. 1660
Watercolour and bodycolour, often heightened with white, on vellum
- Production date
- 1660
- Dimensions
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Height: 205 millimetres
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Width: 288 millimetres (covers)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This album of drawings by Holtzbecker illustrates the flowers in the garden of Eberhard Anckelmann, the father of the Hamburg merchant, Caspar Anckelmann who widely developed the garden, a view of which is illustrated by Holtzbecker in c.1669, in the 'Hortus Anckelmannianus' vol. 1, fol 2v - 3r (Berlin Kupferstichkabinett, Sign.78 D 4). For a history of the garden, see Anne Schattmann, 'Von der Leidenschaft für Blumen - das Florilegium des Caspar Anckelmann' in Michael Roth, Magdalena Bushart and Martin Sonnabend, 'Maria Sibylla Merian und die Tradition des Blumenbildes, exhibition catalogue, Staatliche Museen Kupferstichkabinett Berlin and Städel Museum, Frankfurt, 2017, pp. 117-125.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1888
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1888,1211.1.1-74
