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Lathyrus Nipolia

Georg Dionysius Ehret
1708-1770

Lathyrus Nipolia

1767
9 7/8 x 6 11/16 inches (250 x 170 mm)
Watercolor on parchment.
1978.8:7

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Notes
One of 73 drawings of ferns, flowers, and fungi by Ehret (1978.8:1-73).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated in pen and brown ink at lower right: G.D. Ehret. pinxit / 1767.
Inscribed at lower right: LATHYRUS pedunculis / subifloris foliis simplicitus, / stibulis subulatis.
Associated names
Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785, former owner.
Walker, Elizabeth, former owner.
Ford, John Walker, former owner.
Kraus, Hans Peter, 1907-1988, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department