Simulacrum Scenographicum Celeberrimi Horti Itzsteinensis
1663
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1663
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Simulacrum Scenographicum Celeberrimi Horti Itzsteinensis is a 1663 watercolor by Johann Jakob Walther, a Barbizon school work, depicting Tulipa, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor comes from a flower book made for a German count. It shows tulips and other plants from his gardens in the 1650s. A painter named Johann Jakob Walther visited the gardens eight times to work on the book. The pages mix flowers with views of the castle and grounds. The Victoria and Albert Museum holds the two bound volumes today.
A page from a 17th-century florilegium features a watercolor of a single tulip, part of a two-volume album documenting plants cultivated in the gardens of Count Johann of Nassau-Idstein at Idstein Castle, Germany. The work was created by Johann Jakob Walther, who recorded both garden views and individual species—including established favorites and newly introduced American plants—during at least eight visits between 1651 and 1672.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Working in the 1600s, Johann Jakob Walther painted delicate watercolours of flowers and fruit, often naming each kind in Latin.
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