Arrowhead Bush and Burr Reed, by Thomas Robins

An image of Album: Florilegium. Sagittaria, or Arrowhead Bush and Sparganium or Burr Reed. Robins, Thomas I (British, 1716-1770). Graphite with watercolour and bodycolour including white, on paper, laid down on album leaf, surrounded by rectangular wash borders, height, support, 285 mm, width, support, 201 mm, 18th Century. Album containing 109 drawings. Bound with 17th Century boards, with a new spine, panelled black morocco, tooled in gilt and the arms of Antoine Ferrand de Villemilan (1603-89). Marbled endpapers.

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Album: Florilegium. Sagittaria, or Arrowhead Bush and Sparganium or Burr Reed. Robins, Thomas I (British, 1716-1770). Graphite with watercolour and bodycolour including white, on paper, laid down on album leaf, surrounded by rectangular wash borders, height, support, 285 mm, width, support, 201 mm, 18th Century. Album containing 109 drawings. Bound with 17th Century boards, with a new spine, panelled black morocco, tooled in gilt and the arms of Antoine Ferrand de Villemilan (1603-89). Marbled endpapers.

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Accession Number: PD.115-1973.24
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 740 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 146.21kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2013:12:17 16:09:05

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18th Century 458392 Alismataceae Arrowhead bush Artistic Movement British School Bur-reed Burr Reed Date Department Fitz_PDP Object Type Other Keywords Sagittaria Sparganium Thomas Robins Typhaceae Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd album aquatic plants botanical buds drawing floral flowers perennial plants watercolour Artist/Maker

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