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Botanical drawings: PD.106-1973

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Botanical drawings

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Forbes, Mary (née Capell)

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Description

Album containing 86 watercolours tipped into the pages of an album bound in blue morocco tooled in gilt and bearing an achievement of arms back and front. Stamped in gilt on red leather insets on the spine.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1973) by Fairhaven, Henry Rogers Broughton

School or Style

British

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: motto

  • Text: J' AI BONNE CAUSE
  • Location: With achievement of arms
  • Method of creation: Embossed gold
  • Text: BOTANICAL / DRAWINGS / M. FORBES / 1775 / 1777
  • Location: Spine
  • Method of creation: Embossed gold on red leather insets
  • Text: Mary Capell daughter of 3rd Earl of Essex / Married 1758 Admiral Hon John Forbes, Son of 3rd Earl of Granard.
  • Location: Cover
  • Method of creation: Graphite

Inscription present: attached with stamp paper - the description does not appear to refer to the present album

  • Text: 448 CAPELL (The Ladies DIANA AND ANNE) AND FRANCES HOWARD, 108 / ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS OF FLOWERS & 5 OF BIRDS, EXECUTED WITH / GREAT BEAUTY AND FINISH, some signed or initialled and one dated 1763; also an ORIGINAL / WATER-COLOUR DRAWING OF PHLOX, ETC., BY G.D. EHRET, signed and dated 1766, / all on vellum, mounted in 4 vol., contemporary blue morocco gilt, rough calf sides, with / the cypher of the Earl of Essex (Capell) surmounted by a coronet in each corner, g.e. / [approximate size of drawings 9 in by 7 in] (4)
  • Location: Below the above
  • Method of creation: Cutting from a printed catalogue

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Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.106-1973
Primary reference Number: 31053
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023 Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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