Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Flowers and Butterflies: phlox, scarlet mint, clematis, and garden anemone; two menelaus and two fritillaries

Thomas Robins
1748-1806

Flowers and Butterflies: phlox, scarlet mint, clematis, and garden anemone; two menelaus and two fritillaries

13 13/16 x 9 3/8 inches (352 x 237 mm)
Opaque watercolor, pen and black and colored inks, over graphite, on paper; laid down on old gray paper mount.
1971.13:1-2

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Spencer.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed (signed?) in pen and brown ink: at lower right, "Painted from Nature by Thos Robins the Younger Bath 1786"; letters "a" to "d" below individual flowers and numerals "1" and "2" below butterflies. Lettered in black ink at lower center of old mount: "No. 21 Vol. 1st".
Associated names
Spencer, Ralph, former owner.
Spencer, Ralph, Mrs., former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Sixteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969-1971. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, p. 120.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department