Title:
A Rembrandt and a Darwin Tulip
Maker:
Holland, James; draughtsman; British artist, 1799-1870
Category:
drawing
Name:
drawing
Date:
1827
Date from inscription
School/Style:
British
Technique:
watercolour
Material(s):
watercolour; medium
bodycolour; medium
gum arabic; medium
white bodycolour; medium
graphite; medium
pasteboard; support
Technique
Description:
watercolour and bodycolour with gum Arabic and white heightening over traces of graphite outline on 'Turnball's Super fine London Board'
Dimension(s):
height, pasteboard, 271, mm
width, pasteboard, 215, mm
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1973; Fairhaven, Henry Rogers Broughton
Inscription(s):
; blind stamp; (Turnball's) Super fine London Board
; verso; graphite; Mr. Holland
; verso; graphite; 1827
Exhibition(s):
Gardener's Pride: a third selection of drawings from the Broughton Collection. 1976-07-17 - 1976-09-25
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Venue: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambs.)
Catalogue number: 19
The Pick of the Bunch: a fifth selection of drawings from the Broughton Collection. 1978-07-11 - 1978-09-24
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Venue: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambs.)
Catalogue number: 31
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: 44
Documentation:
Scrase, David. 1983. Flowers of Three Centuries; One Hundred Drawings & Watercolours from the Broughton Collection.Washington, D.C.: International Exhibitions Foundationp. 32-3
Reproduced.
Accession:
Object Number: PD.667-1973
(Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(record id: 23583; input: 2001-03-09; modified: 2011-05-23)
Permanent
Identifier:
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