Title:
Iris germanica (Blue Iris) with a dragonfly and beetle
Maker:
Dietzsch, Johann Christoph; draughtsman; German artist, 1710-1769
Category:
drawing
Name:
drawing
School/Style:
German
Technique:
watercolour
Material(s):
bodycolour; medium
ground (material); medium
vellum (skin); support
Technique
Description:
bodycolour on prepared black ground on vellum, surrounded by gold border
Dimension(s):
height, vellum, 258, mm
width, vellum, 200, mm
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1973; Fairhaven, Henry Rogers Broughton
Provenance:
With Levine and Mosley, February 1942, from whom bought by the 2nd Lord Fairhaven
Notes:
A botanical drawing. It may have been done for an album similar to the ones Redouté prepared for the Empress Josephine.
Exhibition(s):
Flowers of three Centuries: One Hundred Drawings and Watercolours from The Broughton Collection. 1983-03-27 - 1984-05-13
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Venue: Washington D.C
Catalogue number: 22
A first selection of flower drawings from the Broughton Collection. 1973-12-20 - 1974-01-27
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Venue: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambs.)
Catalogue number: 21a
Documentation:
Scrase, David. 1983. Flowers of Three Centuries; One Hundred Drawings & Watercolours from the Broughton Collection.Washington, D.C.: International Exhibitions Foundationp. 18
Reproduced.
Related Object:
PD.347-1973; A spray of Jasmine with a brimstone butterfly
Accession:
Object Number: PD.348-1973
(Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(record id: 23231; input: 2001-03-07; modified: 2011-05-06)
Permanent
Identifier:
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