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NHD56/44
- Record Id:
- 041-003272691
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003272438
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x000c1f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- NHD56/44
- Title:
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Bauhinia. Artist(s): Unknown.
- Scope & Content:
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Bauhinia
Bauhinia Plum. ex L.; Fabaceae family
Original inscriptions: 細葉麟甲 (front lower right in ink); 細葉备甲 Sai-yeip-lan-kap (reverse lower right in pencil)
Further inscriptions: W. Ch. (front lower left in ink); Bauhinia elogans (front lower right in pencil)
Branch red and smooth, adorned with opposite, obcordate-lobed green leaves on pink pedicels with entire margins and palmate veins. Curling tendrils along the branch, at nodes. Terminal corymb inflorescence with numerous elongated buds on long pink pedicels; buds yellow with dark pink edges. Faint, white flowers visible, with sinuous pink stamens with yellow anthers. Lower left corner: illustration of dissected flower members, including five white petals, pink pedicel with funnel-tubular ovary, and pink, sinuous pistil, with pink yellow bracts, cluster of stamens. On the right: leafless twig bearing a fruit podm curling tendrils along the twig. Pod long, thick bordered, reddish-brown, with yellow elongated marks where seeds sit inside the pod.
Any further details: Pencil underdrawings visible, including a whole non-painted pod on the plant.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Natural History Drawings
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003272438
040-003272647
041-003272691 - 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
NHD56/44 : Bauhinia. Artist(s): Unknown. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003272438[0005]/040-003272647[0044]/041-003272691
- 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: 29.5x33cm
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Plants
- Places:
- China, Asia