Red & White Tulip Boxed Notecards Maps

Red & White Tulip Boxed Notecards MapsTulips, native to Central Asia, reached the Netherlands via the Ottoman court in the sixteenth century. By the second quarter of the seventeenth century, the flowers elegant form and almond shaped petals, available in a vibrant array of colors and patterns, was a ubiquitous and conspicuous sign of the fledgling Dutch Republics economic prowess. Tulip books (tulpenboeken), albums containing detailed watercolor drawings of tulips, also emerged during

The drawing reproduced in a lovely red on this pillow is complemented with her signature on the back

published in association with the V&A and the William Morris Gallery

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Wonders explores the abiding fascination with monsters and the enduring power and influence that they have had throughout the history of Western civilization

who was a secretary of state under King Charles IX

a gold foil-stamped spine and a matching satin ribbon page marker

With the same narrative élan he brought to his biographies of the great American financiers

displayed exotic animals

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A Book of Hours is a Christian devotional book that was popular in the Middle Ages

now a threadbare and discarded nursery relic