Georg Dionysius Ehret

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Georg Dionysius Ehret
1708-1770
Ervum hirsutum (Vetch)
1767
Watercolor on parchment.
9 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches (253 x 170 mm)
Purchase.
1978.8:15
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One of 73 drawings of ferns, flowers, and fungi by Ehret (1978.8:1-73).

Inscription: 

Dated in pen and black ink at lower right: 1767.
Inscirbed at lower left: Ervum hirsutum. Lin. ; on verso, at lower left: R. Syn. 322 Huds. 280 no. 2.
Inscribed on reverse, lower left: R. Syn. 322. Huds. 280. No. 2.

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.
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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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