Marsh Marigold, with Companions
Basilius Besler, 1613
$140
Print check at 12 x 16 in: 168 dpi, good. Trimmed 9.3% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $24.80 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Another plate from Basilius Besler's Hortus Eystettensis (1613), grouping three plants that would have flowered together in the Eichstätt garden's early spring beds: a double-flowered marsh marigold (Caltha palustris) at center, flanked by a small pink gentianella and a violet. Besler's engravers worked from specimens grown on-site, and his habit of grouping companion plants on a single plate — rather than isolating one species per page — makes each plate read partly as a planting record, a snapshot of what actually stood next to what. What to notice: the marigold's root system is drawn in full, an unusual level of documentary honesty for a book whose primary purpose was closer to a luxury coffee-table catalog than a scientific flora — evidence Besler's engravers took the underlying botany as seriously as the spectacle.
- Maker
- Basilius Besler
- Date
- 1613
- Medium of the original
- Plate
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00253
| Picture | 12 x 16 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 13.6 x 17.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 269 | Excellent | Trimmed 3.3% |
| 11 x 14 in | 192 | Good | Trimmed 5% |
| 12 x 16 in | 168 | Good | Trimmed 9.3% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | 134 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | 112 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 89 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 67 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 56 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,226 x 2,692 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 75, lights 232 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 142.84
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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