The tale of the Dutch tulip craze is a cautionary one – the first example of an economic bubble. As a new exhibition of flower paintings opens in London, Alastair Sooke looks back. Not long after the ...
One frosty winter morning, at the start of 1637, a sailor presented himself at the counting house of a wealthy Dutch merchant and was offered a hearty breakfast of fine red herring. The sailor noticed ...
Sometime in the 1560s the Dutch Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire saw tulips growing in the gardens of Adrianople in modern day Turkey. He brought tulips back to Holland as gifts for wealthy friends, ...
15 5/8 x 10 1/8 in. (39.7 x 25.5 cm.) ...
Among the grotesque characters that Alice encounters in Wonderland in the Lewis Carroll novel are three card gardeners who paint white roses red. The gardeners start to quarrel and one of them shouts ...
CHICO — Vegetables at the market last week played second fiddle to a riotous display of tulips. Happy market visitors carried their bouquets high to avoid bruising the beautiful petals while vendors ...
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