Skip to main content

Liliaceae, by Aert Schouman

Image attached to PD.127-1973.1

An image of Album. Liliaceae. Schouman, Aert (Dutch, 1710-1792). Watercolour and some bodycolour on laid paper, height, drawing, 369 mm, width, drawing, 253 mm; height, page size, 516 mm, width, page size, 362 mm. 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 boeth sides and stamped on the spine on insets of green leather.

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

About this image

Album. Liliaceae. Schouman, Aert (Dutch, 1710-1792). Watercolour and some bodycolour on laid paper, height, drawing, 369 mm, width, drawing, 253 mm; height, page size, 516 mm, width, page size, 362 mm. 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 boeth sides and stamped on the spine on insets of green leather.

Image data

  • Accession Number: PD.127-1973.1
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/22.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Katie Young
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 715 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 609.66kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 22/1
  • Captured: 2015:12:15 15:57:39

Key words

18th Century Aert Schouman bodycolour botanical drawing Dutch Fitz_PDP floral flowers Liliaceae lilies Lilium lily Other Keywords plants red Schouman species watercolour

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2026) "Liliaceae, by Aert Schouman" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-1355629519 Accessed: 2026-02-15 11:08:02

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-1355629519 |title=Liliaceae, by Aert Schouman |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2026-02-15 11:08:02|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/images/media-202689

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp76/PD_127_1973_1_srgb_201512_kly25_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Liliaceae"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Liliaceae, by Aert Schouman</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>
    

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...