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NHD52/7
- Record Id:
- 041-003272446
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003272438
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x000b2a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- NHD52/7
- Title:
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Illustration of an unidentified fruit tree. Artist(s): Unknown.
- Scope & Content:
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Illustration of an unidentified fruit tree
Flowering branch of an unidentified fruit tree. Light green with brown protruding marks branch adorned with spiralling elliptic green leaves with dark green pinnate veins; few leaves are brown and smaller in size. Four terminal stellate flowers with white, oblong shaped petals characterised by a red inner base and slender light green calyxes. Lower left: dissected illustration of flower pedicel with sepals, and flower corolla showing five pink stamens hidden in the flower tube. Lower right: depiction of a horizontally dissected fruit, showing inner pinkish spotted flesh, and white stone. Fruit skin smooth yellow with green ends, fruit berry of oblong shape. Fruit stone depicted dissected on the right, oblong with pointy ends, vertical ridges and rough surface; internal seed similar, depicted further on the right.
Any further details: Page cut on the left side. White paint partly oxidised; visible folding damage on some of the leaves.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Natural History Drawings
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003272438
040-003272439
041-003272446 - 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
NHD52/7 : Illustration of an unidentified fruit tree. Artist(s): Unknown. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003272438[0001]/040-003272439[0007]/041-003272446
- 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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- Appointment required to view these records. Please consult Asian and African Studies Print Room staff.
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Medium: watercolour
Measurements: 42.6x35.5cm
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Plants
- Places:
- China, Asia