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Georg Dionysius Ehret
1708-1770
Paris quadrifolia Linn: Herb Paris
1766
Watercolor on parchment.
10 x 6 5/8 inches (254 x 168 mm)
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1978.8:11
Inscription:
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.
Provenance:
Margaret Cavendish Harley Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, Bulstrode, England; her sale, London, Portland Museum, Skinner, 24 April 1786 ff. (to Walker); Mrs. Elizabeth Walker; by descent to John Walker Ford; H. P. Kraus, New York.
Notes:
One of 73 drawings of ferns, flowers, and fungi by Ehret (1978.8:1-73).
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.
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