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An image of Title/s: Guaiava. The White Guava
Maker/s: Ehret, Georg Dionysius (draughtsman) [ULAN info: German artist, 1710-1770]
Description: Study of portion of branching woody stem with leaves, fruits, flower and bud and a separate study of dissection of a fruit showing the seeds. Brown strokes of watercolour, upper right, appear as if the artist was trying to obliterate something painted in error. The bodycolour has flaked off in several places on two of the fruits. Removed from album and mounted separately.
Technique Description: watercolour and bodycolour with white on vellum
Dimensions: height: 530 mm, width: 370 mm

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Title/s: Guaiava. The White Guava Maker/s: Ehret, Georg Dionysius (draughtsman) [ULAN info: German artist, 1710-1770] Description: Study of portion of branching woody stem with leaves, fruits, flower and bud and a separate study of dissection of a fruit showing the seeds. Brown strokes of watercolour, upper right, appear as if the artist was trying to obliterate something painted in error. The bodycolour has flaked off in several places on two of the fruits. Removed from album and mounted separately. Technique Description: watercolour and bodycolour with white on vellum Dimensions: height: 530 mm, width: 370 mm

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Accession Number: PD.117-1973 folio 13
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Image height: 760 pixels
Image width: 537 pixels
Processed with: ACD Systems Digital Imaging
Filesize: 31.08kB

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