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Botanical drawings: PD.127-1973

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Botanical drawings

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Schouman, Aert

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Description

Album containing 63 drawings. The drawings on white chain paper are laid down on the pages of an album bound in olive green leather tooled in gilt and much rubbed, the boards and end papers detached from spine. It carries coronated crests on both sides and stamped on the spine on insets of green leather.

Acquisition and important dates

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

School or Style

Dutch

Components of the work

Page Size Height 516 mm Width 362 mm

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: Drawings / of / plants / and / flowers / by / Shouman
  • Location: Spine
  • Method of creation: Stamped on insets of green leather
  • Text: J.F. Foottit
  • Location: Fly-leaf, upper right
  • Method of creation: Ink
  • Text: Rev. J.F. Foottit / Scredington Vicarage / Sleaford. Lincs.
  • Location: Fly-leaf
  • Method of creation: Graphite

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.127-1973
Primary reference Number: 32246
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023 Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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