Anemone pulsatilla, Primula veris and a butterfly

An image of Album. Flower drawings. Anemone pulsatilla, Primula veris (Cowslip) and a butterfly (Cabbage white?). Unknown French draughtsman. Watercolour and some bodycolour on vellum tipped in on album sheet, height 245 mm, width 175 mm, circa 1750. Notes: Containing 44 drawings on vellum, tipped in on the pages of an album bound in red leather tooled in gilt. The pages are grey rough paper with white interleaves and multi-coloured end-papers. Each drawing is contained by ruled margins coloured in gold and red.

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Album. Flower drawings. Anemone pulsatilla, Primula veris (Cowslip) and a butterfly (Cabbage white?). Unknown French draughtsman. Watercolour and some bodycolour on vellum tipped in on album sheet, height 245 mm, width 175 mm, circa 1750. Notes: Containing 44 drawings on vellum, tipped in on the pages of an album bound in red leather tooled in gilt. The pages are grey rough paper with white interleaves and multi-coloured end-papers. Each drawing is contained by ruled margins coloured in gold and red.

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Accession Number: PD.126-1973.23
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 769 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 693.95kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2015:12:22 11:17:54

Key words

18th Century anemone auriculas bodycolour botanical butterflies butterfly drawing Fitz_PDP floral flowers French insects Other Keywords pale yellow primula veris Primulaceae primulas Ranunculaceae Ranunculus species vellum watercolour yellow

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