IDENTIFIERS
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id:	32390
accession number:	PD.132-1973.6

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 28 August 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: A watercolour drawing from the album PD.132-1973. This is a Chinese export watercolour depicting a pink lotus flower. There is a large, fully opened lotus flower on the left, painted in delicate shades of pink and deeper magenta. The center of the flower is a seed pod with visible yellow stamens surrounding a green central structure dotted with the typical lotus seed holes. The lotus leaves in green shades have brown edges. The painting demonstrates the fine brushwork characteristic of Chinese export art from the late 18th or early 19th century, combing traditional Chinese flower-and-bird painting style and Western botanical illustration.
title:	drawing

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
collection:	Broughton Collection

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/32390


SUBJECTS
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plant
plant



TECHNIQUES
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watercolour and white on thin paper, tipped in on the cream coloured album sheet
watercolour

CATEGORIES
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category: drawing

DATING
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culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Canton workshop

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: mm
value: 301

dimension: Width
units: mm
value: 375