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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Unidentified plant, perhaps a botanical fantasy based upon a Heliconia Ginger or a Grass Flower.
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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.’
Woodsorrel, Oxalis (seeds). Artist(s): Grant, Elizabeth Nicholson Agnes (fl. 1834-54)
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Woodsorrel, Oxalis (seeds) Family Oxalidaceae, ‘Oxalis sp.’ Original inscriptions: Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: 290mm by 225mm Note:
The sacred tree of the Hindoos at Gyah, Bahar.. Artist(s): Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840)
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The sacred tree of the Hindoos at Gyah, Bahar. No. XV. THE SACRED TREE AT GYAH, IN THE PROVINCE OF BAHAR. By the natives this favourite Tree is called the Bhur, and by Europeans the Banyan. It is a species of the fig, and bears a small red fruit. In every village they are to be met with. S...