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Henri-Joseph Redouté
1766-1852
Ehretia internodis
Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and illuminated border, on wove paper.
Design area: 13 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches (350 x 238 mm); full sheet: 22 3/8 x 16 3/4 inches (569 x 426 mm)
Purchased on the Fellows Fund and Fellows Capital Fund, with the special assistance of Julia P. Wightman.
1980.83:4
Inscription:
Signed in pen and brown ink, at lower left, "henri Jo: Redouté pinx"; key numbers 2 to 8 in pen and brown ink within the design; illuminated outside border, at upper edge, "XXIV.", and at lower edge, "EHRETIA internodis".
Provenance:
Massachusetts Horticultural Society; sale, New York, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, 1 October 1980, lot 141.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 211.
Notes:
Watermark: none.
This is one of four original drawings bound into Carlos Ludovicus L'Héritier de Brutelle, "Stirpes novae...", Paris, 1784 (PML 76745).
Associated names:
Wightman, Julia P. (Julia Parker), 1909-1994 donor.
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