A Page from the #DrawingPapers Archive This page from Drawing Papers 98 features an etching on copper titled, Nuova raccolta di varie e diverse sorti di fiori, created by #ArnoldvanWesterhourt in 1631. This etching was featured in our 2011 exhibition called Drawing and its Double, which presented engraved metal printing plates dating from the sixteenth century to the late twentieth century, culled exclusively from the collections of the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica. Westerhout’s #etching, which copies the drawings of Jacques Bailly, illustrates various species of flora (following a widespread late-seventeenth-century fashion) and succeeded in satisfying the demands of both scientific classification and collectors, who preserved such floral assortments in bound volumes in their libraries. The Drawing Papers are a series of publications documenting #TheDrawingCenter ’s exhibitions and public programs and providing a forum for the study of drawing. -Kate Robinson, Bookstore Manag...