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Flower album: PD.124-1973

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Flower album

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Bell, Julia (Possibly)

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Description

Album containing 10 watercolours on vellum placed between the pages of an album bound in red morocco tooled in gilt with marbled end papers. The pages are of Whatman paper and some are watermarked J. WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL / 1855.

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Production date: after AD 1855

School or Style

British

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: Emily H Downing / fr. her affecionate Gdmother / Julia Bell. the Artist.
  • Location: Fly-leaf, upper centre
  • Method of creation: Ink

Inscription present: in a decorative motif in the shape of a floating swan, the date effaced

  • Text: J. BURY 1823
  • Location: Fly-leaf, centre
  • Method of creation: Ink
  • Text: 10 Drawings
  • Location: Fly-leaf, lower right
  • Method of creation: Ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.124-1973
Primary reference Number: 32017

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020

Associated departments & institutions

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

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