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Paeonia moutan var. B. Paeonia suffruticosa
Draughtsman: Redouté, Pierre Joseph
Study of seed-head in graphite, numbered. Removed from album and mounted separately.
History note: Painted for the Empress Joséphine; by descent in the d' Orléans family (?); the 2nd Lord Fairhaven
Height: 458 mm
Width: 333 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 1812
Watercolour
Graphite
Gum arabic
Support composed of vellum (skin)
Watercolour : Watercolour with gum Arabic over traces of graphite on vellum, margins ruled in red and gold ink
Accession number: PD.122-1973.23
Primary reference Number: 31798
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Accession Number: PD.307-1973
Accession Number: PD.122-1973.47
Accession Number: PD.122-1973.1
Accession Number: O.1-1933
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