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Georg Dionysius Ehret
1708-1770
Melittis Melissophyllum
1760s
Watercolor on vellum.
9 5/16 x 6 7/8 inches (252 x 175 mm)
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1978.8:27
Inscription:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink at lower left: Melittis Melissophyllum / 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).
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