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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770, Italian, Millettia ferruginea (Hochst.) Baker: finished drawing with a few details excluded, undated
- Title:
- Millettia ferruginea (Hochst.) Baker: finished drawing with a few details excluded
- Additional Title(s):
- Sassa or Buberra (details)
- Date:
- undated
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 15/16 × 12 1/8 inches (40.5 × 30.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, lower center: "Sassa or Buberra [...] | The parts of the flower as dissected here are to be transferred to the other Drawing No | 1 [...] the Large leaves here to be omitted [...] only the parts that [...] its kind of flowers"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.9113
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- botanical subject
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:15541
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Paul Hulton, Luigi Balugani's drawings of African plants, From the collection made by James Bruce of Kinnaird on his travels to discover the source of the Nile 1767-1773 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1991, p. 88, pl. 18, QK98.183 B2 H85 1991 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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