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Arrangement of Flowers in a vase with insects | A tulip, two white Columbine flowers and two rosebuds in an ornamental vase, with on it, in the centre, a Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) with its wings outspread, a caterpillar left of centre, a dragonfly right of centre, a cockchafer on its back at lower left and a fallen anemone flower at lower right (descriptive)

Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Arrangement of Flowers in a vase with insects | A tulip, two white Columbine flowers and two rosebuds in an ornamental vase, with on it, in the centre, a Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) with its wings outspread, a caterpillar left of centre, a dragonfly right of centre, a cockchafer on its back at lower left and a fallen anemone flower at lower right (descriptive)

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Arrangement of Flowers in a vase with insects

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Arrangement of Flowers in a vase with insects | A tulip, two white Columbine flowers and two rosebuds in an ornamental vase, with on it, in the centre, a Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) with its wings outspread, a caterpillar left of centre, a dragonfly right of centre, a cockchafer on its back at lower left and a fallen anemone flower at lower right (descriptive)

Date

1594

Accession number

WA1951.49

Acquisition method

Purchased, 1951.

Work type

Drawing

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Joris Hoefnagel

1542–1601

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