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NHD54

Record Id:

040-003272545

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003272438

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x000b8d

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

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.

One of six volumes of plant illustrations comprising in all 309 water-colour drawings of Chinese plants, mostly flowering shoots natural size, sometimes with fruits, and usually with floral dissections drawn natural size and coloured.

By Chinese artists c.1800.

53 ff.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Project / Collection:

Natural History Drawings

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003272438
040-003272545

Is part of:

NHD52-57 : NHD52-57 Six volumes of plant illustrations comprising 309 watercolour drawings of Chinese plants, mostly flowering shoots natural…

NHD54 : Album of Chinese plant illustrations, covers only

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-003272438[0003]/040-003272545

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 Item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Styles:

China/Canton style
Chinese school

Start Date:

1799

End Date:

1801

Date Range:

c 1800

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Medium: watercolour

Material Type:

Prints, Drawings and Paintings

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Subjects:

Flowers
Plants