Museum Plantin-Moretus Online Catalogue

Object number
MPM.HB.06325
Title
- Chalcedonian lily, scarlet martagon lily or scarlet Turk's cap lily [Lilium chalcedonicum]
Production date
1576
Description
Almost identical woodcut of the same plant: MPM.HB.07829
Object name
woodblock (printing matrix)
Material
wood (plant material)
Technique
woodcut (printing process)
Acquisition date
1876-04-20
Acquisition method
purchase - Moretus, Edward
Printed in
- Matthias de L'Obel, Plantarum, seu Stirpium historia ... Cui annexum est adversariorum volumen, 1576, p. 85 (Hemerocallis Chalcedonica purpurosanguinea polyanthos)