Jacob de Gheyn, II. Carolus Clusius. 1596–1606. Netherlands. Engraving, with stippling, in black on cream laid paper Jacques de Gheyn trained as a glass painter, miniaturist, and ultimately as an engraver under Hendrick Goltzius. It was only around 1600 that he turned from printmaking to painting. Carolus Clusius, pictured here, was a French botanist who, in his later years, cam to Leiden where his cultivation of tulips marked the beginning of the Dutch tulip-bulb industry.

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