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A bunch of flowers, by Redouté

Image attached to PD.880-1973

An image of A bunch of flowers including a peony, roses, hibiscus, asters, gentian and an imaginary blue butterfly. Redouté, Pierre Joseph (Flemish, 1759-1840). Graphite and watercolour with traces of gum Arabic over graphite on vellum, height 453 mm, width 376 mm. Acquisition: bequeathed 1973 by Henry Rogers Broughton Fairhaven.

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A bunch of flowers including a peony, roses, hibiscus, asters, gentian and an imaginary blue butterfly. Redouté, Pierre Joseph (Flemish, 1759-1840). Graphite and watercolour with traces of gum Arabic over graphite on vellum, height 453 mm, width 376 mm. Acquisition: bequeathed 1973 by Henry Rogers Broughton Fairhaven.

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  • Accession Number: PD.880-1973
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/18.0
  • Focal length: 63
  • Camera: GFX 50S
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 1025 pixels
  • Image width: 847 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 576.73kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 18/1
  • Captured: 2018:04:20 00:01:58

Key words

19th Century _WF_Fairhaven Asteraceae Asters botanical bunch butterflies butterfly Fitz_PDP Flemish floral flowers Hibiscus insects mallow Malvaceae Paeoniaceae paeony peonies peony Pierre Joseph Redoute pink pink roses Redoute rosebud roses spray vellum watercolour yellow roses

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