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Adoxa Moschatellina

Georg Dionysius Ehret
1708-1770

Adoxa Moschatellina

1764
10 3/16 x 6 15/16 inches (259 x 176 mm)
Watercolor on parchment.
1978.8:3

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Notes
One of 73 drawings of ferns, flowers, and fungi by Ehret (1978.8:1-73).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated in pen and brown ink below center: G.D. Ehret pinxit 1764.
Inscribed in pen and brown ink at lower center: ADOXA Linn. / Moschatellina / Tuberous Moschatel.
Associated names
Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785, former owner.
Walker, Elizabeth, former owner.
Ford, John Walker, former owner.
Kraus, Hans Peter, 1907-1988, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department