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NHD54/47
- Record Id:
- 041-003272592
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003272438
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x000bbc
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- NHD54/47
- Title:
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Rose Myrtle. Artist(s): Unknown.
- Scope & Content:
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Rose Myrtle
Rhodomyrtus tomentosa (Aiton) Hassk.; Myrtaceae family
Original inscriptions: 鳥拈 (front lower right in ink)
Further inscriptions: H. Sh. (front lower left in ink); Myrtus tomentosa (front lower right in pencil)
Tomentose brown branchlets, densely leaved. Leaves opposite, dark green with yellow underneath and with reddish pedicel; blade elliptic, with a reddish axial vein and blueish secondary veins on each side of axial vein. Flowers bright pink, obovate petals, with numerous grey stamens. Numerous buds along the full length of each twig. Lower left: dissected view of the stamens, orange pedicel with round light green sepals, five pink petals. Lower right: dissected fruit berry, purple-black skin, globulose with urceolate end and densely clustered seeds on the middle of the berry. Seed is light brown-orange, elongated.
Any further details: Pink paint partly oxidised.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Natural History Drawings
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003272438
040-003272545
041-003272592 - 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
NHD54/47 : Rose Myrtle. Artist(s): Unknown. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003272438[0003]/040-003272545[0047]/041-003272592
- 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:
-
Medium: watercolour
Measurements: 30x33cm
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Plants
- Places:
- China, Asia