drawing
- Museum number
- 1881,1112.2117
- Description
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Dandelion with a moth and a smaller green moth or butterfly, in a landscape with a bank and pink sky
Watercolour and bodycolour, on vellum
- Production date
- 1741-1784
- Dimensions
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Height: 319 millimetres
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Width: 249 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Heidrun Ludwig 'Nürnberger naturgeschichtliche Malerei im 17 und 18 Jahrhundert', 1993, L.I. p.219. Attributed to Elizabeth Christina Matthes by Heidrun Ludwig. This must be the dissertation - volume of same title published in Marburg an der Lahn in 1998, for which see pp.132 ff. for a discussion of Matthes as a follower of Barbara Regina Dietzsch, and pp.354f. for biography.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1987 Feb 5 - May 25, BM, 'An A-Z of P&D'
- Acquisition date
- 1881
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1881,1112.2117
