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French School
19th century
Allium
ca. 1846
frame: 16 3/16 x 12 inches (411 x 305 mm); 14 3/8 x 9 5/8 inches (368 x 246 mm)
Watercolor, white opaque watercolor, over graphite, on wove paper
2019.107:5
Donated by Mrs. Jayne Wrightsman in honor of Mrs. Annette de la Renta.
Notes
10 original watercolors of garden flowers removed from a contemporary book bound in purple morocco, blind tooled with gilt fillet, gilt initials R.B. in center of cover. France, 1846.
This sheet is from a group of ten watercolors depicting garden flowers removed from a volume bound in purple morocco, blind-tooled with gilt fillet, and stamped in gilt with the initials R.B. in the center of the cover. The binding was produced in France in 1846, suggesting that the botanical illustrations may date around the same time. They are executed on English paper from the Whatman mill and are in the spirit of the eighteenth-century master Pierre-Joseph Redouté.
This sheet is from a group of ten watercolors depicting garden flowers removed from a volume bound in purple morocco, blind-tooled with gilt fillet, and stamped in gilt with the initials R.B. in the center of the cover. The binding was produced in France in 1846, suggesting that the botanical illustrations may date around the same time. They are executed on English paper from the Whatman mill and are in the spirit of the eighteenth-century master Pierre-Joseph Redouté.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: J WHATMAN.
Associated names
Wrightsman, Jayne, former owner.
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Classification
Century Drawings
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