Title
[Album of watercolors of Asian fruits and flowers]
Title Variants
Alternative:
Asian fruits and flowers
Alternative:
Philippine Islands fruits and flowers
Alternative:
Watercolors of Asian fruits and flowers
Related Titles
Series:
Dumbarton Oaks Digitization Project, Garden and Landscape Studies
By
Type
Book
Material
Archival material
Publication info
[between 1798 and 1850?]
Notes
Watercolor paintings of fruits and flowers of Asia. The drawings show mango, jumbol, coffee, tea and clove plants, plantain, jungle mangostein, custard apple, sage, watermelon, breadfruit, durien, black pepper and nutmeg, with English names faintly penciled at upper left of each image.
Drawings may have originated in the Philippine Islands. "[T]he origins of the watercolors seem likely to be Malaysia or Sumatra, based on the striking similarity with paintings in Kew, the British Library, and the London Natural History Museum."--http://www.doaks.org/library-archives/library/library-exhibitions/botany-of-empire/illustration-and-representation/album-of-watercolors-of-asian-fruits-and-flowers
"This album contains two images of a cashew plant (plates 8 and 10) that are practically mirror images of one another, indicating a workshop setting, with a standard repertoire, that produced multiples for the market."--http://www.doaks.org/library-archives/library/library-exhibitions/botany-of-empire/illustration-and-representation/album-of-watercolors-of-asian-fruits-and-flowers
Subjects
Asia
,
Botanical illustration
,
Flowers
,
Fruit
,
Identification
,
Pictorial works
,
Watercolor painting
Language
English
Identifiers
OCLC:
437426219
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