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Selenicereus grandiflorus (Queen-of-the-Night or Night-Flowering Cereus)
Draughtsman: Knip, Henriette Geertruida
Height: 498 mm
Width: 360 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1973) by Fairhaven, Henry Rogers Broughton
Watercolour
Bodycolour
Graphite
Support composed of cartridge paper
Watercolour : Watercolour and bodycolour over graphite surrounded by a graphite line, on cartridge paper
Accession number: PD.729-1973
Primary reference Number: 23766
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Selenicereus grandiflorus (Queen-of-the-Night or Night-Flowering Cereus)" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/23766 Accessed: 2023-06-05 23:44:02
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Accession Number: PD.8-1983
Accession Number: PD.116-1973.6
Accession Number: C.1540-1928
Accession Number: OC.13A-1938
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