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'Tulips', 1798. Creator: Philip Reinagle.

'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).
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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).
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Album / Heritage Images / © National Museum of Wales
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Image size:
3689 x 4858 px | 51.3 MB
Print size:
31.2 x 41.1 cm | 12.3 x 16.2 in (300 dpi)