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Erica patersonia
Draughtsman: Redouté, Pierre Joseph
History note: Painted for the Empress Joséphine
Height: 440 mm
Width: 304 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1973) by Fairhaven, Henry Rogers Broughton
Production date: AD 1813
Watercolour
Bodycolour
Graphite
Support composed of vellum (skin)
Watercolour : Watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on vellum, margins ruled in red and gold ink
Accession number: PD.122-1973.44
Primary reference Number: 31865
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Erica patersonia" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/31865 Accessed: 2023-05-28 14:05:25
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Accession Number: PD.122-1973.43
Accession Number: PD.122-1973.16
Accession Number: PD.122-1973.22
Accession Number: PD.193-1973
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