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Birdsfoot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatis)
Schouman, Aert
(Draughtsman)
Plant with branching stems and yellow flower-heads carried on long erect stalks, and long dark brown pods, leaflets.
Height: 365 mm
Width: 260 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
Support composed of laid paper
Watercolour : Watercolour on laid paper
Accession number: PD.127-1973.61
Primary reference Number: 32334
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Birdsfoot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatis)"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/32334 Accessed: 2022-08-08 14:59:05
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Accession Number: CM.1929-2008
Accession Number: M.40-1904
Accession Number: CM.1823-2008
Accession Number: CM.BI.2355-R
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