IDENTIFIERS
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id:	32396
accession number:	PD.132-1973.12

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 shell ginger and hibiscus. The composition shows shell ginger with its characteristic drooping racemes of pink and white shell-like flowers with yellow fringed lips, accompanied by large lance-shaped leaves with parallel venation. On the right, orange hibiscus blooms display the typical five-petaled form with prominent stamens, supported by palmate 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/32396


SUBJECTS
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plant
plant



TECHNIQUES
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watercolour with white 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: 377

dimension: Width
units: mm
value: 298