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NHD56/20
- Record Id:
- 041-003272667
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003272438
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x000c07
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- NHD56/20
- Title:
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White rose. Artist(s): Unknown.
- Scope & Content:
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White rose
Rosa L,; Rosaceae family
Original inscriptions: 金纓 (front lower right in ink); Kum-ying-fa- (reverse lower right in pencil)
Further inscriptions: W. Ch. (front lower left in ink); Rosa sp. (both front and reverse lower right in pencil)
Flowering branch of a white rose plant. Brown-greenish twig, with numerous spines and clusters of three leaves; leaf blade elliptic with serrate margins, yellow axial veins, and alternate sub-veins. Many leaves are curling. One front facing flower, on a long and thin, light green pedicel. Wide white petals, with a cluster of yellow stamens and a green thick, villose style in the middle. One small, lateral bud, showing long ovary, and long sinuous green bracts; white petals visible between the bracts. One petal-less calix showing a pubescens, spiky, light green hypanthium and five, elongated and pointy bracts. Bottom centre: dissected view of the flower, including petals, pedicel with sepals dissected in half showing stamens and styles, some of which depicted separately on the side.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Natural History Drawings
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003272438
040-003272647
041-003272667 - Is part of:
- NHD52-57 : NHD52-57 Six volumes of plant illustrations comprising 309 watercolour drawings of Chinese plants, mostly flowering shoots natural…
NHD56 : Album of Chinese plant illustrations, covers only
NHD56/20 : White rose. Artist(s): Unknown. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003272438[0005]/040-003272647[0020]/041-003272667
- 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: 29.3x33cm
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Plants
- Places:
- China, Asia