Fritillaria Imperialis Foliis Aureo Variegatis

Botanical illustration from A. C. Van Eeden's *Flora of Haarlem*, plate 68. Rendered by Dutch artist Arentine H. Arendsen, this hand-colored lithograph depicts the crown imperial fritillary with characteristic golden-variegated foliage and drooping red-orange flowers. The plant is shown with precise attention to leaf structure and natural growth pattern against a neutral ground. Such illustrations served both horticultural and aesthetic purposes, documenting cultivated garden specimens for Dutch growers and collectors during the nineteenth-century expansion of European botanical publishing.