IDENTIFIERS
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id:	32394
accession number:	PD.132-1973.10

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 red peony (Paeonia lactiflora) and bleeding heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis). The composition shows a fully opened red peony bloom with densely layered petals on the left, accompanied by characteristic dark green compound leaves. On the right, the arching stems of bleeding heart display their distinctive pink heart-shaped pendant flowers hanging in drooping clusters, with compound foliage. The painting demonstrates the fine brushwork characteristic of Chinese export art from the late 18th or early 19th century, combining 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/32394


SUBJECTS
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plant
plant



TECHNIQUES
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watercolour heightened with 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: 298

dimension: Width
units: mm
value: 374