Rosa centifolia Batavica. Rose versicolor

Drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe, the Younger (1594/1595-1670) and published in his Hortus floridus (Arnheim: Apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1614). Plate 13 (pencilled plate number 72).

Crispijn de Passe, the Younger was the son of the eminent Dutch engraver and publisher Crispijn de Passe, the Elder, who established a publishing house in Cologne that produced portraits of European nobility and other prints. Hortus Floriduswas one of Crispijn de Passe, the Younger's most well-known publications.