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NHD57/20
- Record Id:
- 041-003272724
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003272438
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x000c40
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- NHD57/20
- Title:
-
Peach. Artist(s): Unknown.
- Scope & Content:
-
Peach
Prunus L.; Rosaceae family
Original inscriptions: 虾蜜桃 (front lower right in ink); 虾蜜桃 Ha-mat-tow (reverse lower right in pencil)
Further inscriptions: W. Ch. (front lower left in ink)
Reddish brown branch, with alternate lanceolate leaves, with serrate margins. Light green-yellowish pedicels. Two fruit berries on the twig, one smaller, and green-yellowish, one larger, green-yellowish with reddish marks. Fruit berries oblong, with pointed and curved end. Flowering branch with small, yellowish leaves, stellate fuchsia flower with five petals and numerous stamens, one erect pistil, few buds along the apex of the twig. Lower left: dissected view of the flower, showing five pink-fuchsia petals, pedicel with stellate sepals, yellow to fuchsia, and a long sinuous pistil, followed by five sets of three stamens. Dissected view of the fruit, showing internal cream-coloured flesh, and reddish ridged seed. Seed is also depicted separately on the right, elongated and pointy, reddish, with rugose surface.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Natural History Drawings
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003272438
040-003272704
041-003272724 - Is part of:
- NHD52-57 : NHD52-57 Six volumes of plant illustrations comprising 309 watercolour drawings of Chinese plants, mostly flowering shoots natural…
NHD57 : Album of Chinese plant illustrations, covers only
NHD57/20 : Peach. Artist(s): Unknown. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003272438[0006]/040-003272704[0020]/041-003272724
- 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: 29.2x33.1cm
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Plants
- Places:
- China, Asia