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Bluebell and a dragonfly

Image attached to PD.126-1973.36

An image of Album. Flower drawings. Bluebell (Endymon non-scriptus) and a dragonfly. Unknown French draughtsman. Watercolour and some bodycolour on vellum tipped in on album sheet, height 244 mm, width 181 mm, circa 1750. Notes: Containing 44 drawings on vellum, tipped in on the pages of an album bound in red leather tooled in gilt. The pages are grey rough paper with white interleaves and multi-coloured end-papers. Each drawing is contained by ruled margins coloured in gold and red.

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Album. Flower drawings. Bluebell (Endymon non-scriptus) and a dragonfly. Unknown French draughtsman. Watercolour and some bodycolour on vellum tipped in on album sheet, height 244 mm, width 181 mm, circa 1750. Notes: Containing 44 drawings on vellum, tipped in on the pages of an album bound in red leather tooled in gilt. The pages are grey rough paper with white interleaves and multi-coloured end-papers. Each drawing is contained by ruled margins coloured in gold and red.

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  • Accession Number: PD.126-1973.36
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/22.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Katie Young
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 757 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 671.49kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 22/1
  • Captured: 2015:12:22 11:26:10

Key words

18th Century blue bluebell bodycolour botanical dragonflies dragonfly drawing Fitz_PDP floral flowers French hyacinth hyacinthus insects Other Keywords species vellum watercolour

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