IDENTIFIERS
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id:	317336
accession number:	4205.1

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Friday 3 May 2024
updated:	Thursday 28 August 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: A watercolour drawing from the album 4205. The image depicts a flower stem with red petals with long, broad green leaves. This is surrounded by several purple daisies. A large black and yellow butterfly is positioned in the upper left corner; based on the wing pattern it appears to be a swallow-tail butterfly. In the upper right corner is a pink grasshopper. The artwork shows meticulous attention to botanical and entomological details. The illustration combines scientific accuracy with artistic composition, characteristic of Chinese natural history paintings of this period.
title:	drawing

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: Given by Rev. John Durham Denis de Vitré, 1942

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/317336





TECHNIQUES
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watercolour and bodycolour on pith paper
watercolour

CATEGORIES
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category: album

DATING
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creation date:	1800 - 1870
creation date earliest:	1800
creation date latest:	1870
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Canton workshop