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3891. NHD54

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD54
Title:
Album of Chinese plant illustrations, covers only
Scope & Content:
Original binding and covers for NHD54. See individual records for NHD54/1-53 for contents. On inside cover inscribed in Latin: 'This book contains sixty pictures'. Also inscribed: 'Wan Teheun' (perhaps name of artist or patron?). Individual watercolours removed from original covers in 2014. O...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

3892. NHD55

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD55
Title:
Album of Chinese plant illustrations, covers only
Scope & Content:
Original covers and binding of NHD55. See individual entries for NHD55/1-47 for contents. Inscribed on the inner back cover in pencil (in Latin): 'This book contains fifty pictures'. Individual watercolours removed from original covers in 2014. One of six volumes of plant illustrations compr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

3893. NHD56

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD56
Title:
Album of Chinese plant illustrations, covers only
Scope & Content:
Original covers and binding of NHD56. See individual entries for NHD56/1-56 for contents. No inscriptions. Individual watercolours removed from original covers in 2014. One of six volumes of plant illustrations comprising in all 309 water-colour drawings of Chinese plants, mostly flowering sh...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

3894. NHD56/54

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD56/54
Title:
Chinese redbud. Artist(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
Chinese redbud Cercis chinensis Bunge; Fabaceae family Original inscriptions: 紫荆(front lower left in ink); 三月開 (reverse lower left in ink); Tzeu-king (reverse lower right in pencil) Further inscriptions: H. Sh. (front lower left in ink) Woody, greyish branch, mostly glaborous, with a cluster...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Chinese, English, and Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

3895. NHD57

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD57
Title:
Album of Chinese plant illustrations, covers only
Scope & Content:
Original covers and binding of NHD57. See individual entries for NHD57/1-48 for contents. Inscribed on inner back cover: 'Wan Teheun' (perhaps name of artist or patron?). Individual watercolours removed from original covers in 2014. One of six volumes of plant illustrations comprising in all ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

3896. NHD58

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD58
Title:
Arabian Coffee
Scope & Content:
Single drawing from the collection of Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859). Elphinstone served with the East India Company from 1795 to 1827, ending his career as Governor of Bombay 1819 to 1827. He was a great scholar and keenly interested in the flora of India. The present drawing was part of...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1827
Extent:
1 Item

3897. NHD60/1

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD60/1
Title:
Unidentified plant, perhaps a botanical fantasy based upon a Heliconia Ginger or a Grass Flower.
Scope & Content:
Unidentified plant Inscribed on back: ‘JNR 26’ NOTE : Exhibited American Federation of Arts 1978-79. See S.C. Welch 1978. pl.l2c ‘A Botanical fantasy based upon a Heliconia Ginger or a Grass Flower.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790-1800
Extent:
1 Item

3898. NHD60/2

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD60/2
Title:
A plant of the Dioscorea group (yam).
Scope & Content:
A plant of the Dioscorea group (yam). Inscribed on back: ‘JNR 24. Yam (Dioscorea sp.)’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790-1800
Extent:
1 Item

3899. NHD61/2

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD61/2
Title:
Woodsorrel, Oxalis (seeds). Artist(s): Grant, Elizabeth Nicholson Agnes (fl. 1834-54)
Scope & Content:
Woodsorrel, Oxalis (seeds) Family Oxalidaceae, ‘Oxalis sp.’ Original inscriptions: Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: 290mm by 225mm Note:
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1834-1854
Extent:
1 Item

3900. Or 4938

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4938
Title:
Twenty-three portraits and various other sketches from a 19th century Persian album, many of them by Abu'l Hasan Ghaffari.
Scope & Content:
Twenty-three portraits and various other sketches from a 19th century Persian album, many of them by Abu’l Hasan Ghaffari. Qajar. Eighteenth to nineteenth centuries. Literature: Rieu, Supp. p.262. Titley no. 42. B. W. Robinson, ‘Persian Miniature Painting from Collections in the British Isles’,...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780-1886
Extent:
1 Item

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