Periploca floribus, by Georg Dionysius Ehret

An image of Album. Botanical Drawings. Periploca floribus. Ehret, Georg Dionysius (German, 1708-1770). Graphite and watercolour on vellum, height 231 mm, width 152 mm. Album containing 19 watercolours on vellum, mounted (pasted onto the pages of the album). Bound in brown leather, gold tooled. Page size 255 mm, page width 182 mm. 1765.

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Album. Botanical Drawings. Periploca floribus. Ehret, Georg Dionysius (German, 1708-1770). Graphite and watercolour on vellum, height 231 mm, width 152 mm. Album containing 19 watercolours on vellum, mounted (pasted onto the pages of the album). Bound in brown leather, gold tooled. Page size 255 mm, page width 182 mm. 1765.

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Accession Number: PD.114-1973.3
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 683 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 518.61kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2016:01:05 15:28:22

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18th Century _WF_Fairhaven album Apocynaceae botanical butterflies butterfly drawing Ehret Fitz_PDP floral flowers Georg Dionysius Ehret German leaves Periploca vellum watercolour

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