Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

unknown artist, eighteenth century

Title:

Bauhinia farec Desv. : finished drawing of a flowering shoot, with details of flowers below

Date:

undated

Medium:

Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 12 9/16 × 9 13/16 inches (31.9 × 24.9 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper center: "No border but to be plain as the rest"; inscribed on verso in pen and black ink, upper left: "Farik No 11"

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1977.14.8896

Classification:

Drawings & Watercolors

Collection:

Prints and Drawings

Subject Terms:

botanical subject

Currently On View:

Not on view

Publications:

James Bruce, Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 , Edinburgh, 1790, precedes p. 57-64 (vol. 5), DT377 B88 1790+ Oversize (YCBA Rare Books)

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. 85, pl. 151, QK98.183 B2 H85 1991 (YCBA)

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:15430