[Album of watercolors of Asian fruits and flowers]

Title Variants

Alternative: Asian fruits and flowers

Alternative: Philippine Islands fruits and flowers

Alternative: Watercolors of Asian fruits and flowers

Related Titles

Series: Dumbarton Oaks Digitization Project, Garden and Landscape Studies

By

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

[between 1798 and 1850?]

Notes

Watercolor paintings of fruits and flowers of Asia. The drawings show mango, jumbol, coffee, tea and clove plants, plantain, jungle mangostein, custard apple, sage, watermelon, breadfruit, durien, black pepper and nutmeg, with English names faintly penciled at upper left of each image.

Drawings may have originated in the Philippine Islands. "[T]he origins of the watercolors seem likely to be Malaysia or Sumatra, based on the striking similarity with paintings in Kew, the British Library, and the London Natural History Museum."--http://www.doaks.org/library-archives/library/library-exhibitions/botany-of-empire/illustration-and-representation/album-of-watercolors-of-asian-fruits-and-flowers

"This album contains two images of a cashew plant (plates 8 and 10) that are practically mirror images of one another, indicating a workshop setting, with a standard repertoire, that produced multiples for the market."--http://www.doaks.org/library-archives/library/library-exhibitions/botany-of-empire/illustration-and-representation/album-of-watercolors-of-asian-fruits-and-flowers

Subjects

Asia , Botanical illustration , Flowers , Fruit , Identification , Pictorial works , Watercolor painting

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 437426219