Japanese Tree Peony, by Lucy Cust

An image of Paeonia suffruticosa (Paeonia moutan var. B., Moutan or Japanese Tree Peony). Cust, Lucy (British, active c. 1815). Watercolour with traces of bodycolour and gum Arabic over faint traces of graphite outline on card, height 541 mm, width 694 mm, 1815. Acquisition: bequeathed 1973 by Henry Rogers Broughton Fairhaven.

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Paeonia suffruticosa (Paeonia moutan var. B., Moutan or Japanese Tree Peony). Cust, Lucy (British, active c. 1815). Watercolour with traces of bodycolour and gum Arabic over faint traces of graphite outline on card, height 541 mm, width 694 mm, 1815. Acquisition: bequeathed 1973 by Henry Rogers Broughton Fairhaven.

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Accession Number: PD.307-1973
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/18.0
Focal length: 63
Camera: GFX 50S
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 800 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 88.83kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 18/1
Captured: 2018:04:22 23:39:53

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19th Century _WF_Fairhaven botanical British School drawing English Fitz_PDP floral flowers Lucy Cust Paeoniaceae paeony peonies peony pink sprig watercolour

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