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A 1592 natural history print series published in Frankfurt am Main by Jacob Hoefnagel, son of the painter Joris Hoefnagel, made as a visual study of plants and small creatures with Latin emblematic verses beneath. The plates show a tightly arranged still life of flowers, fruit, insects, and shells, each set on a plain ground with its own inscription. A designer could borrow the dense, ordered arrangement of specimens and the engraved line work for botanical or pattern-based layouts.
