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NHD54/21
- Record Id:
- 041-003272566
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003272438
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x000ba2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- NHD54/21
- Title:
-
Dwarf Magnolia. Artist(s): Unknown.
- Scope & Content:
-
Dwarf Magnolia
Magnolia liliifera (L.) Baill.; Magnoliaceae family
Original inscriptions: 夜合花 (front lower right in ink); Yē-hup- (reverse lower right in pencil)
Further inscriptions: W. ch. (front lower left in ink); Magnolia pumila (reverse lower right in pencil)
Flowering branch of a dwarf magnolia. One, nodose, brown-greyish branch, from which two smooth and sinuous, blueish-green twigs depart. Leaves on the blueish-green twigs, lanceolate with entire margins and pinnate-reticulate golden veins. At the end of the twigs, on the left a bloomed flower, side facing. Two blueish-green sepals, and several white petals. On the right, a small, elongated bud. Lower left: dissected view of three greeish-white petals, six white elongated petals, and the pedicel with view of the yellow, short and dense stamens, and longer white to reddish pistil.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Natural History Drawings
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003272438
040-003272545
041-003272566 - 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
NHD54/21 : Dwarf Magnolia. Artist(s): Unknown. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003272438[0003]/040-003272545[0021]/041-003272566
- 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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- User Conditions:
- Appointment required to view these records. Please consult Asian and African Studies Print Room staff.
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Medium: watercolour
Measurements: 29.7x33.2cm
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Plants
- Places:
- China, Asia