> "Credit: Alamy" (x5) Actual credit for the hero-image engraving is Crispijn van de Passe (attributed, at least), sometime between 1600–1604, currently in the

> "Credit: Alamy" (x5) Actual credit for the hero-image engraving is Crispijn van de Passe (attributed, at least), sometime between 1600–1604, currently in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Besides the misattribution, even the description is wrong: only the right drawing (label "18") is the "Mespilus germanica" the article's about—the left one is an unrelated flower, drawn on the same page. (Or however you say it, for an engraving). It's one plate from a large collection of botanical engravings, "Hortus Floridus" (published 1614–1616) you can browse on archive.org (I link below). https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/object/Dagkoekoeksbloem-en-mispel--4eaa155f525b8b52683aa53d8cb9ea6c?tab=data https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/object/Dagkoekoeksbl... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispijn_van_de_Passe_the_Younger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispijn_van_de_Passe_the_Youn... ("Dutch Golden Age engraver, draughtsman and publisher of prints") https://archive.org/details/hortusfloridusin00pass/page/n248/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/hortusfloridusin00pass/page/n248... And the watercolor in the 6th image is by Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt (née Alamy?), also in the Rijksmuseum, dated 1596–1610. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/object/Mispel-Mespilus-germanica--d30b0e1a15546767ec92a4052fc467e8?tab=data https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/object/Mispel-Mespil... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselmus_de_Boodt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselmus_de_Boodt ("Flemish humanist naturalist, Rudolf II physician's gemologist")