print study; drawing; album

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Object Type: print study; drawing; album
Museum number: SL,5284.46
Description: One of 141 drawings in an album of plants, whose names had been registered by a Society of Gardeners at monthly meetings held from c.1723 onwards, bound in red leather with gold tooling and lettering Virginian Hawthorn and Virginian Azarol with red fruit Watercolour, over graphite
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School/style: British; Dutch
Production date: 1723-1746
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Dimensions: Height: 375 millimetres; Width: 265 millimetres (approx)
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Curator's comments: Engraved in the same sense by Henry Fletcher for Pl XIII of 'Catalogus Plantarum'. From album SL.5284.1-141 See also SL.5285.1-120 See also SL.5285.122-124
Bibliographic references: Croft-Murray (unpublished) / Catalogue of British Drawings in the British Museum: artists born 1665 to 1715 (1(46)); Binyon 1898-1907 / Catalogue of drawings by British artists, and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain (1(46))
Location: Not on display
Subjects: tree/bush; fruit
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Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: SL,5284.46
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: N,03.46

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