Flowers and butterflies, by T.C. Robins

An image of Flowers including parrot tulip, larkspur, sweet william, gentian and cyclamen, the butterflies include red admiral, southern white admiral and brimstone. Robins, T.C. (British, active c.1768). Watercolour and bodycolour with gum Arabic over graphite on paper, height 468 mm, width 358 mm, 1769.

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Flowers including parrot tulip, larkspur, sweet william, gentian and cyclamen, the butterflies include red admiral, southern white admiral and brimstone. Robins, T.C. (British, active c.1768). Watercolour and bodycolour with gum Arabic over graphite on paper, height 468 mm, width 358 mm, 1769.

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Accession Number: pd.912-1973
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: 770 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.3 (Windows)
Filesize: 243.98kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2013:11:29 10:07:10

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18th Century botanical British School butterflies butterfly Cyclamen drawing Fitz_PDP floral flowers gentian insects larkspur Ranunculaceae Ranunculus Red Admiral sweet william T.C. Robins tulips watercolour

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