Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Study of Blossoming Myrtle

Georg Dionysius Ehret
1708-1770

Study of Blossoming Myrtle

19 7/16 x 14 3/8 inches (493 x 365 mm)
Watercolor and opaque watercolor, over graphite, on paper.
1998.16

Gift of Charles Ryskamp in memory of Bernice Davidson.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower center in pen and black ink, "MYRTUS; foliis odore Nucis Mofchatae [ligature], cauliculis rubentibus / vulgo odore Citri. Schuyl. Boerh. Ind."; signed at lower right in pen and black ink, "G. D. Ehret. P."
Associated names
Ryskamp, Charles, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department