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NHD54/53
- Record Id:
- 041-003272598
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003272438
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x000bc2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- NHD54/53
- Title:
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Illustration of an unidentified purple flower plant. Artist(s): Unknown.
- Scope & Content:
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Illustration of an unidentified purple flower plant
Original inscriptions: 岡拈 (front lower left in ink)
Flowering branch of a unidentified purple flower plant. Erect, brown-greyish branch smooth on lower half, and reddish brown, hairy on upper half, with clustered dark green leaves. Leaf blade elliptic-lanceolate with entire margins, and thick longitudinal basal veins; smaller veins opposite from each longitudinal vein, thick woody pedicel. Few flowers at the top, in group of three, more rarely individual. Wide, purple petals, with sinuous yellow stamens; buds elongated, with white or brown, hairy sepals. Lower left: dissected view of the stamens, alternating yellow and purple, with yellow-only stamens, pedicel and stellate hairy, pinking sepals, five purple elongated petals. Lower right: dissected view of a fruit showing dark purple exterior, lobed apex, and internal numerous bright pink dots.
Any further details: Paint partly oxidised.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Natural History Drawings
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003272438
040-003272545
041-003272598 - 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
NHD54/53 : Illustration of an unidentified purple flower plant. Artist(s): Unknown. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003272438[0003]/040-003272545[0053]/041-003272598
- 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:
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Medium: watercolour
Measurements: 29.8x33.6cm
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Plants
- Places:
- China, Asia