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Flower Album: PD.112-1973

Object information

Current Location: In storage

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Flower Album

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Unknown

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Description

Album containing 26 watercolours on vellum numbered 1-27 (No. 6 missing) the drawings are tipped in on the pages of the album. Green leather, tooled in gilt. Pages of grey chain paper except for the first three and last four which are white paper watermarked. End papers are marbled.

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Production date: circa AD 1766

Components of the work

Sheet Size Height 289 mm Width 212 mm

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: below Achievement of Arms

  • Text: Henry Rogers Broughton
  • Location: Inside front cover
  • Method of creation: Printed label
  • Text: Mary Ann Barlow
  • Location: Endpaper, verso, upper right
  • Method of creation: Ink

Inscription present: index of album with ruled margins and the English translations in red ink

  • Text: 1. Aquilegia Columbine / 2. Anagallis Monelli Large blue Pimpernel Flower / 3. Ranunculus Ranunculu / 4. Convalaria Lily of the Valleys / 5. Primula Cowslip / 6. Rosa, provincialis pedunculo Mufioso Moss Province Rose (Missing) / 7. Adonis Pheazants Eye / 8. Ranunculus Ranunculus & Narcissus double / 9. Sathyrus Sweet pea purple / Nacisus Narcissus the white & yellow / 11. Sragaria Wood Strawberry / 12. Anemone Anemone purple / 13. Rosa, Eglanteria Sweet Briar Rose / 14. Vinca Blue Periwinkle double / 15. Tulipa Tulip / 16. Jesminum, Vulgare Common white Jessamine / 17. Anemone Anemone Red / 18. Coronilla Jointed Podded Coletia / 19. Lilac, folio Legultri Commonly called Persian Jessamine / 20. Rectolis, Anemonespermos With the pale white flower / 21. Phlox, pilosa Carolina Sychnidea / 22. Phlaspi Candy Tuft / 23. Diosma African Spircea / 24. Anchusa, Semper florenes Eastern Buglop: Gilt flower / 25. Geranium, fuscum Cranen Gill with a black flower / 26. Saxifraga Saxifrage wth dble flowers / 27. Cytisus Shrubby Trefoil
  • Location: Third page
  • Method of creation: Black and red ink

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Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.112-1973
Primary reference Number: 31494
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Flower Album" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/31494 Accessed: 2024-03-29 09:13:21

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