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NHD56/36
- Record Id:
- 041-003272683
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003272438
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x000c17
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- NHD56/36
- Title:
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Oriental Raisin Tree. Artist(s): Unknown.
- Scope & Content:
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Oriental Raisin Tree
Hovenia dulcis Thunb.; Rhamnaceae family
Original inscriptions: 万字果 (front lower right in ink); 萬字果 (reverse lower right in pencil)
Further inscriptions: W. Ch. (front lower left in ink); Hovenia dulcis (both front and reverse lower right in pencil)
Woody, brown branch with alternate ovate leaves, serrate margins and alternate veins. Asymmetrical cyme inflorescences, highly sketched, with yellow-green pedicel and small, round, pale yellowish flowers. Behind the flowering branch, small twig bearing fruit. Swollen racemose peduncles, pale orange, with small, globular red drupes pending at the end. Lower left: fruit pedicel with drupes, one part of the pedicel shown dissected. Lower right: dissected view of the flower.
Any further details: Pencil underdrawing visible.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Natural History Drawings
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003272438
040-003272647
041-003272683 - 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
NHD56/36 : Oriental Raisin Tree. Artist(s): Unknown. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003272438[0005]/040-003272647[0036]/041-003272683
- 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: 29x32.7cm
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Plants
- Places:
- China, Asia