Blumenbuch

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Series: Dumbarton Oaks Digitization Project, Garden and Landscape Studies

By

Funck, Magdelena Rosina, active late 17th century-

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

[Place of publication not identified], [publisher not identified], 1692

Notes

"Unique collection of very fine water colors of flowers [297], executed by Magdalena Rosina Funck, and dedicated by her to "the public library of the famous Altdorf University, for the remembrance of her humble name."--Dumbarton Oaks Research Libray & Collection documentation.

"The plates are of high artistic quality, the lines and color of the flowers are reproduced with extraordinary delicacy and skill. The flowers represented in this book are those which grow in the gardens, meadows and woods of the temperate zone, and which the artist must have known.... Some flowere are repeated more than once ... showing their magnificent color combinations and rich variety of form which may occur in the same species. While the illustrations are those of a flower-lover rather than those of a scientist, they are nevertheless amazingly accurate and detailed, evidencing keen powers of observation and technical finessse."---Dumbarton Oaks Research Libray & Collection documentation.

Dedication page has a wreath of tulips, carnations, and other flowers (all color) that records in German that the volume was offered by the author to the Universität Altdorf in 1692.

"The University of Altdorf mentioned on the title [dedication] page of the book refers not to the town in Switzerland but to Altdorf in Bavaria, Germany. This town, situated near Nuremberg, used to have a university and the Renaissance building housing it stll exists."---Dumbarton Oaks Research Libray & Collection letter from H. de Torrenté, dated July 29, 1955.

"Another album of 290 nearly identical copies from the beginning of the 18th century is in the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon Universsity in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA."--Wikipedia (accessed November 20, 2017).

Gilt coat of arms with motto "tu ne cede malis", on front cover and on back cover.

Article | Agnes Mongan. A f?te of flowers : women artists' contribution to botanical illustration. In Apollo, | volume CXIX, number 266, April 1984, pages 264-267.

Subjects

Botanical illustration , Early works to 1800 , Flowers in art , Pictorial works

Language

German

Identifiers

OCLC: 437426214