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Botanical drawings: PD.114-1973

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Botanical drawings

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Ehret, Georg Dionysius

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Categories

Description

Album containing 19 watercolours on vellum, mounted (pasted onto the pages of the album). Bound in brown leather, gold tooled

Acquisition and important dates

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

School or Style

German

Components of the work

Page Size Height 255 mm Width 182 mm

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: blue writing paper

  • Text: Valuable collection of my Great Grand / Fathers flower paintings unfortunately many / of these were framed / and the light faded / the colouring G.E.V.
  • Location: First page of album
  • Method of creation: MS ink on paper, stuck down

Inscription present: old writing

  • Text: -4 Stiles sitting on the Germen, each has a bilabiated skiny stigma, of a dark / purple colour, the Stiles are ally hayry and shing like silver -- / The Flower has commonly 8 Stam: 4 of which appear larger than the next, the / are also all over hairy like the Stiles, of a Silvery Colour / The Flower are at first of a bale yellow brown colour, but change / after into a Spadiceous, inclinging to purple colour, and remain on the Germen. / all the flowers hang downward like unto the male Tree, but having / but one flower on each petiolus; whereas the Male I drew at Buls - / drote having 3 and sometime 4 / The calyx leaves are green, and yellow with brown on theire edges yellowish / pale reddish wein through the midle, and theire edges yellowish / the Germen contains 8 seeds, the are lodges in a cell and are of a / red colour, the Germen is a hard fleshy substance. / The Filaments are feat (?) and ashere to the base of the flower.
  • Location: Second page of album
  • Method of creation: MS ink on paper, stuck down
  • Text: This refers to a new and rare plant / which blossomed at Butstrode / at the same time as a / similar plant in France / see GB Ehrets note upon it / in his mem book.
  • Location: Second page of album, verso
  • Method of creation: Graphite

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.114-1973
Primary reference Number: 31570
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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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