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Leucojum

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Georg Dionysius Ehret
1708-1770

Leucojum

1767
18 1/16 x 12 13/16 inches (459 x 325 mm)
Opaque watercolor over graphite on parchment.
1952.28:14

Gift of Mr. Junius S. Morgan and Mr. Henry S. Morgan.

Notes
Inscribed in ink at the bottom: "Bunias (cakile) silliculis ovatis/aevibus ancipitibus. Linn, Sea Rocket."
Inserted at front of the volume is a note, presumably in Ehret's hand, reading: "The plant which I have drawn last year by an overside have given a name under the drawing, of Leu cojum morinum which is not the true generical title of the plant--therefore I beg for the present to lay the underwritten name to it till such time I can rectifie it myself. Bunias cakile siliculis ovatis aeribus ancipitibus. Linn Sea Rocket."
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated in ink at lower right: G. D. Ehret pinxit /1767.
Associated names
Morgan, Jane Norton, 1868-1925, former owner.
Morgan, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1900-1982, former owner.
Morgan, Junius Spencer, 1892-1960, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department