General
General
Object Auto ID
73080
Alternate Codes
159837
Common Name
Watercolour
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Quantity
1.00
Object Description
The Parliament Collection:
A plant with its bulb visible. The plant resembles a melon, is greyish-green in colour and has small flowers at the top. (Part of a collection, see 34340)Euphorbe a cotes de Melon, du Pais des Hottentots-Koraquois pres la Riviere des Poissons.; The melon-ribbed euphorbia, from the country of the Koraqua Hottentots near the Fish River [in Namibia]. [Melon spurge, Euphorbia meloformis]
Provenance
Purchased at Sotheby's, London in 1963
Description
Description
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Distinguishing Features
Botanical [plates 119-165]
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Dimension Comments
Unframed and mounted in a box; Image size (inside border) 378 x 281 mm
History
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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