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drawing; album(?)

Object Type: drawing; album (?)
Museum number: SL,5270.25
Description: Banana, leaf from a volume (now consisting of 113 leaves of drawings), associated with John White Pen and ink and graphite with watercolour and bodycolour
Producer name
School/style: British; American
Production date: 1585-1593
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 389 millimetres; Width: 265 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See curatorial comment in SL,5270.1 for information about the album from which this is taken. This is a version of John White's watercolour 1906,0509.1.39; see curatorial comment on that drawing for further information.
Bibliographic references: Croft-Murray 1960 / Catalogue of British Drawings in the British Museum, XVI and XVII centuries (78(25)); Hulton & Quinn 1964 / The American Drawings of John White 1577-1590, with drawings of European and Oriental subjects (13(b)); Binyon 1898-1907 / Catalogue of drawings by British artists, and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain (3(30))
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name: Transferred from: British Library; Bequeathed by: Sir Hans Sloane
Acquisition date: 1753
Acquisition notes: See Acq.Hist in BM SL-5270.1. Transferred from the Department of Manuscripts.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: SL,5270.25