Cognoscite lilia agri quomodo crescant
Hortus Floridus, a botanical flower book of 1614 published in Cologne, engraved by Crispijn van de Passe the elder and his family for gardeners and collectors of plants. Its pictures are copperplate engravings of single flowers, buds and sprigs drawn with fine hatched lines on a cream ground, with each plant set out separately so a designer can borrow forms, leaf outlines and tonal shading directly.
