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Saracenia
Ehret, Georg Dionysius
(Draughtsman)
A stem with yellow flower and leaves growing from a patch of soil. Removed from album and mounted separately.
Height: 474 mm
Width: 336 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
Production date: AD 1766
Watercolour
Bodycolour
Graphite
Support composed of vellum (skin)
Watercolour : Watercolour and bodycolour over traces of graphite on vellum
Accession number: PD.117-1973.22
Primary reference Number: 31640
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31640 Accessed: 2022-06-29 07:33:22
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