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NHD52/6
- Record Id:
- 041-003272445
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003272438
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x000b29
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- NHD52/6
- Title:
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Crape myrtle flower. Artist(s): Unknown.
- Scope & Content:
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Crape myrtle flower
Lagerstroemia indica L.; Lythraceae family
Original inscriptions: 紅紫微花 (front lower right in ink); 紅紫微花 Hong-tzen-mei (reverse lower right in pencil)
Further inscriptions: W. Ch. (front lower left in ink); Lagerstroemia indica (front lower right in pencil)
Flowering branch of crape myrtle flower, showing a slender brown/reddish twig, with opposite elliptic dark green leaves with pinnate golden veins. Terminal densely flowered racemose inflorescence with white, pink and fuchsia coloured flowers, crimpled petals. Numerous stamens depicted in darker fuchsia colour with yellow anthers, fewer longer ones with light green anthers. Two lateral leafy twigs depart from the main branch, one with an inflorescence with closed buds. An additional smaller twig is depicted separately on the right with closed flower buds. Buds are depicted with reddish outlines and yellow filling. Along the bottom of the page: illustration of six white-fuchsia petals, one pedicel with light green sepals accompanied by the pistil, and stamens laid out individually along the page.
Any further details: Pencil underdrawings visible beneath and around painted parts.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Natural History Drawings
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003272438
040-003272439
041-003272445 - Is part of:
- NHD52-57 : NHD52-57 Six volumes of plant illustrations comprising 309 watercolour drawings of Chinese plants, mostly flowering shoots natural…
NHD52 : Album of Chinese plant illustrations, covers only
NHD52/6 : Crape myrtle flower. Artist(s): Unknown. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003272438[0001]/040-003272439[0006]/041-003272445
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: NHD52-57
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Chinese
English - Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Chinese school
- Start Date:
- 1799
- End Date:
- 1801
- Date Range:
- c 1800
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Appointment required to view these records. Please consult Asian and African Studies Print Room staff.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour
Measurements: 29x33cm
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Plants
- Places:
- China, Asia