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Hibiscus

Image attached to PD.117-1973.16

An image of Title/s: Hibiscus 
Maker/s: Ehret, Georg Dionysius (draughtsman) [ULAN info: German artist, 1710-1770]
Description: Study of a single shoot from a portion of woody stem, with leaves, flowers and fruit. Removed from album and mounted separately. 
Technique Description : bodycolour over traces of graphite outline on vellum 
Dimensions: height: 476 mm, width: 336 mm
Date: 1764

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Title/s: Hibiscus Maker/s: Ehret, Georg Dionysius (draughtsman) [ULAN info: German artist, 1710-1770] Description: Study of a single shoot from a portion of woody stem, with leaves, flowers and fruit. Removed from album and mounted separately. Technique Description : bodycolour over traces of graphite outline on vellum Dimensions: height: 476 mm, width: 336 mm Date: 1764

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  • Accession Number: PD.117-1973 folio 16
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
  • Photographer name: Andrew Morris
  • Image height: 760 pixels
  • Image width: 543 pixels
  • Processed with: ACD Systems Digital Imaging
  • Filesize: 28.84kB

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