General
    General
    Object Auto ID
    73068
    Alternate Codes
    159917
    Common Name
    Watercolour
    Classified Name
    Quantity
    1.00
    Object Description

    The Parliament Collection:
    A branch with thorns and fruit. Some of the fruit is red in colour, some yellow and some green. To the right an image of a seed. (Part of a collection, see 34340)L'Epine Traitresse ou le Caroop des Namaquois sur les Bords de la Riviere Orange.; The treacherous thorn or Caroop of the Namaquas, on the banks of the Orange River. [Buffalo thorn, Ziziphus mucronata]

    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) 439 x 284 mm
    History
    Object Age Comment
    [1785-1795, 1811]
    Maker Comment
    LE VAILLANT, Francois, 1753-1824. Reinold, Johann Lebrecht
    User Comment
    Exhibition curated by Prof Ian Glenn at S.A. Museum: Nov 2012 - May 2013
    Collector Comment
    Watercolour on paper
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