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Georg Dionysius Ehret
1708-1770
Chenopodium bonus henricus
1760s
Watercolor on parchment.
10 x 6 11/16 inches (254 x 171 mm)
Purchase.
1978.8:47
Inscription:
Inscribed in pen and ink at lower right: Chenopodium Bonus henricus; inscribed in pen and ink at lower left (verso): Chenopodium Bonus Henricus.
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).
Watermark: none.
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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