Drawing, album, print, Hans Simon Holtzbecker, 1660

Album bound in red leather with gilt ruling and gold tooling, stamped on the front cover "e a/1660" and on the back "a c a", containing 73 numbered vellum leaves with drawings and 23 unnumbered guarded blank vellum leaves, each with additional manuscript numbers 1-99 (apart from one leaf with no manuscript number and 4 leaves missing), interleaved with unnumbered paper leaves, also one numbered vellum drawing laid down on paper, and a section 12 paper leaves at the back (one numbered in manuscript 100); the first 2 leaves with an index tipped in; with botanical illustrations of flowers (including fox-gloves and tiger lillies) and the coat-of-arms of the anckelmann family. 1660 watercolour and bodycolour, often heightened with white, on vellum. Object Type: Florilegium, literary work, collection. Date: 1660. Dimensions: height: 205 mm (8.07 in); width: 288 mm (11.33 in). Medium: wool. Depicted People: Eberhard Anckelmann. Collection: British Museum. Drawing, album, print (BM 1888,1211.1.1-74 4)