IDENTIFIERS
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id:	32392
accession number:	PD.132-1973.8

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 28 August 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: A watercolour drawing from the album PD.132-1973. This is a Chinese export watercolour depicting hardy begonia (Begonia grandis) and red lily. The begonia displays clusters of small pink flowers with yellow centers, accompanied by characteristic asymmetrical leaves with reddish undersides and prominent veining. The red lily shows the typical six-petaled form with recurved orange-red petals and prominent stamens extending from the center, supported by narrow lance-shaped leaves. The painting demonstrates the fine brushwork characteristic of Chinese export art from the late 18th or early 19th century, combining traditional Chinese flower-and-bird painting style and Western botanical illustration.
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
collection:	Broughton Collection

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/32392


SUBJECTS
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plant
plant



TECHNIQUES
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watercolour highlighted with white over traces of graphite, on thin paper, tipped in on the cream coloured album sheet
watercolour

CATEGORIES
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category: drawing

DATING
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culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Canton workshop

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: mm
value: 301

dimension: Width
units: mm
value: 374