Flower drawings of the Ranunculus: PD.110-1973

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Flower drawings of the Ranunculus

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Unknown

Entities

Album

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