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NHD54/36
- Record Id:
- 041-003272581
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003272438
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x000bb1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- NHD54/36
- Title:
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Illustration of an unidentified lilac flower plant. Artist(s): Unknown.
- Scope & Content:
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Illustration of an nidentified lilac flower plant
Further inscriptions: W. Ch. (front lower left in ink); Anonyma (reverse lower right in pencil)
Erect, light brown-greyish woody branch, dividing into three branchlets. Alternate and opposite elliptic green leaves along the full length of the branchlets. Middle leaves have yellow ends. Leaf blade with entire margins and opposite golden veins. Individual flowers alongthe full length of each branchlet. Flowers are small, with five round lilac petals, and five long stamens between each petal. Lower left: flower corolla depicted from front, showing five purple petals, with five stamens, undulating between each petal and protruding beyond their length; one short, light green-yellowish pedicel with round ovary and short pistil of the same colour.
Any further details: White paint partly oxidised.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Natural History Drawings
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003272438
040-003272545
041-003272581 - 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
NHD54/36 : Illustration of an unidentified lilac flower plant. Artist(s): Unknown. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003272438[0003]/040-003272545[0036]/041-003272581
- 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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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour
Measurements: 29x32.6cm
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Plants
- Places:
- China, Asia