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NHD53/2
- Record Id:
- 041-003272492
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003272438
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x000b58
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- NHD53/2
- Title:
-
Rourea. Artist(s): Unknown.
- Scope & Content:
-
Rourea
Rourea micrphylla (Hook.&Arn.) Planch; Connacareae family
Original inscriptions: 山洋桃 (front lower right in ink); 山洋桃 Shan-yeuong-tō (reverse lower right in pencil)
Further inscriptions: W.Ch. (front lower left in ink)
Flowering branch of a Rourea plant, showing one main erect and nodose branch with opposite, elliptic, dark green leaves. Few flowering stems branch out from mid-height and at the top of the branch. Panicle like inflorescence, with small reddish stellate flowers, and several reddish-yellow buds. Stamens are visible in some of the open flowers, but flowers are sketched, and not depicted in great detail. Lower left: illustration of a dissected flower, with depiction of five elliptic white to reddish petals, a set of five stamens, and eleven additional pairs of stamens; pedicel with set of five sepals. On the lower right: additional smaller leafy twig with numerous alternate bi-pinnate leafy stems, one twig showing three red fruit berries. Fruit are elliptic in shape with pointy end, skin is dark red-orange.
Any further details: Faint pencil sketched outline of some secondary strands of inflorescence and secondary twigs, which are not painted.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Natural History Drawings
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003272438
040-003272490
041-003272492 - Is part of:
- NHD52-57 : NHD52-57 Six volumes of plant illustrations comprising 309 watercolour drawings of Chinese plants, mostly flowering shoots natural…
NHD53 : Album of Chinese plant illustrations, covers only
NHD53/2 : Rourea. Artist(s): Unknown. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003272438[0002]/040-003272490[0002]/041-003272492
- 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:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1800
- 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: 29.5x32.5cm
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Plants
- Places:
- China, Asia