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Paris quadrifolia Linn: Herb Paris

Georg Dionysius Ehret
1708-1770

Paris quadrifolia Linn: Herb Paris

1766
10 x 6 5/8 inches (254 x 168 mm)
Watercolor on parchment.
1978.8:11

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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 at lower right: G.D. Ehret pinxit / 1766.
Inscirbed in pen and brown ink at lower left: Herb Paris, / True-Love, / One-Berry; at lower right: PARIS / quadrifolia Lin.
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