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Sarracenia purpurea

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An image of Title/s: Sarracenia purpurea. Pitcher Plant 
Maker/s: Ehret, Georg Dionysius (draughtsman) [ULAN info: German artist, 1710-1770]
Description: Study of a plant growing in soil, with leaves, single red flower and two buds carried on shorter stems. Removed from album and mounted separately.
Technique Description: watercolour and bodycolour over traces of graphite on vellum 
Dimensions: height: 477 mm, width: 338 mm 
Date: 1764

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Title/s: Sarracenia purpurea. Pitcher Plant Maker/s: Ehret, Georg Dionysius (draughtsman) [ULAN info: German artist, 1710-1770] Description: Study of a plant growing in soil, with leaves, single red flower and two buds carried on shorter stems. Removed from album and mounted separately. Technique Description: watercolour and bodycolour over traces of graphite on vellum Dimensions: height: 477 mm, width: 338 mm Date: 1764

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  • Accession Number: PD.117-1973 folio 23
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
  • Photographer name: Andrew Morris
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  • Image width: 549 pixels
  • Processed with: ACD Systems Digital Imaging
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