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NHD55/24
- Record Id:
- 041-003272623
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003272438
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x000bdb
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- NHD55/24
- Title:
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Illustration of an unidentified pink flower plant. Artist(s): Unknown.
- Scope & Content:
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Illustration of an unidentified pink flower plant
Original inscriptions: -黄皮仔 (front lower left in ink, first character unintelligible); Tseu-wong-pei-tsat (reverse lower right in pencil)
Further inscriptions: H. Sh. (front lower left in ink)
Woody, light brown-reddish branch, with numerous lateral branchlets with numerous opposite leaves. Leaf blade elliptic with entire margins, opposite thin veins, and reddish pedicel, that continues into a thick axial leaf vein of reddish to yellow colour. At the top and on the lower right of the branch, two leaves show decay. Groups of two flowers stem from the leaves nodes, greyish pedicel with grey bracts, green sepals, and tight pink petals. Lower right: small twig bearing four berry like fruits, and one sketched blueish leaf. Fruit berry elongated and pointy, with several dark green pointy bracts; light pink skin. One berry is shown dissected, showing bracts, and internal white flesh; fruit skin from green to white to pink. Lower right: dissected view of the flower, including five bracts of sepals, white; three clusters of short stamens; pedicel with pistil and ovary in bright orange; five petals.Any further details: The same plant is depicted in NHD55/7, bearing the same Chinese inscription.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Natural History Drawings
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003272438
040-003272599
041-003272623 - Is part of:
- NHD52-57 : NHD52-57 Six volumes of plant illustrations comprising 309 watercolour drawings of Chinese plants, mostly flowering shoots natural…
NHD55 : Album of Chinese plant illustrations, covers only
NHD55/24 : Illustration of an unidentified pink flower plant. Artist(s): Unknown. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003272438[0004]/040-003272599[0024]/041-003272623
- 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:
- 1799
- End Date:
- 1801
- 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:
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Medium: watercolour; paper
Measurements: 29.3x33cm
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Plants
- Places:
- China, Asia