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Flower drawings of the Ranunculus: PD.110-1973

Object information

Current Location: In storage

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Flower drawings of the Ranunculus

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Unknown

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Description

Album containing 41 watercolour drawings of the flower Rancunculus, laid down on vellum pages of an album bound in black Morocco leather tooled in gilt. The pages are gold edged. Inside front cover is a bookplate of the engraved achievement of arms of Henry Rogers Broughton. Drawings within ruled graphite margin. Final pages in the album show that the vellum carried drawings and inscriptions that have been later scraped out. See 'inscriptions/marks' and 'notes'.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1973) by Fairhaven, Henry Rogers Broughton

Components of the work

Page Size Height 316 mm Width 255 mm

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: bookplate of the achievement of arms, the name engraved below

  • Text: Henry Rogers Broughton
  • Location: Inside front cover
  • Method of creation: Printed engraving
  • Text: A collection of 41 drawings / of the flower, Ranunculus, drawn onto paper with watermark of I Taylor 1798. / From the collection of Dr. E.H. Krelage, Holland.
  • Location: Fly-leaf
  • Method of creation: Graphite

Inscription present: scraped out

  • Text: From a rectory in Herefordshire said to be designed by Inigo Jones / date in centre 1594
  • Location: Page 44

Inscription present: faint

  • Text: italian
  • Location: Page 45, centre right

Inscription present: reverse direction

  • Text: Italian - put in by Adam [next six words indecipherable] / Elisabethian pattern mould [next two words indecipherable] / House / [two words indecipherable] carving of
  • Location: Page 46, centre of page
  • Text: St. (?) Marks
  • Location: Page 46, lower left
  • Text: Italian half
  • Location: Page 47, lower centre
  • Text: the top is repetition of [word indecipherable]
  • Location: Page 47, verso, upper centre

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Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.110-1973
Primary reference Number: 31356
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023 Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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