General
    General
    Object Auto ID
    73064
    Alternate Codes
    231194
    Common Name
    Watercolour
    Classified Name
    Quantity
    1.00
    Object Description

    The Parliament Collection:
    A branch of a tree with a pink flower showing. The image of a flower to the left and in the centre the images of the fruit in its skin, the stone as it appears when the skin splits and the stone itself. To the right another smaller image of the flower. (Part of a collection, see 34340)Une Branche et une Fleur du Maron[n]ier dans le Pais des Namaquois. 1. La Fleur quand Elle commence a pousser avec le petit bouton du Fruit 2. La Fleur dans la grandeur Naturelle. 3. La fruit dans son ecorce Grand: Naturelle. 4. Le jolie Noyau comme il se fait voir quand l'ecorce se creve. 5. Un morceau du Noyau coupe.; A branch and a flower of the chestnut in Namaqualand. 1. The flower when it begins to shoot, with the young fruit. 2. The flower, natural size. 3. The fruit in its skin, natural size. 4. The pretty stone as it appears when the skin splits. 5. A piece of the stone.

    Provenance

    Purchased at Sotheby's, London in 1963

    Description
    Technique Types
    Distinguishing Features

    Botanical [plates 119-165]

    Measurement Type Unit Value
    Dimension Comments
    Unframed and mounted in a box; Image size (inside border) 491 x 301 mm
    History
    Object Age Comment
    [1785-1795, 1811]
    Maker Comment
    LE VAILLANT, Francois, 1753-1824. Reinold, Johann Lebrecht
    Collector Comment
    Watercolour on paper
    Date Retrieved Reference Types Citation
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