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Georg Dionysius Ehret
1708-1770
Leucojum
1767
Opaque watercolor over graphite on parchment.
18 1/16 x 12 13/16 inches (459 x 325 mm)
Gift of Mr. Junius S. Morgan and Mr. Henry S. Morgan.
1952.28:14
Notes:
Inscribed in ink at the bottom: "Bunias (cakile) silliculis ovatis/aevibus ancipitibus. Linn, Sea Rocket."
Inserted at front of the volume is a note, presumably in Ehret's hand, reading: "The plant which I have drawn last year by an overside have given a name under the drawing, of Leu cojum morinum which is not the true generical title of the plant--therefore I beg for the present to lay the underwritten name to it till such time I can rectifie it myself. Bunias cakile siliculis ovatis aeribus ancipitibus. Linn Sea Rocket."
Inscription:
Signed and dated in ink at lower right: G. D. Ehret pinxit /1767.
Provenance:
Beckford Library, Hamilton Palace; sale, London, Sotheby's, 12 July 1882, lot 2776 (as containing 20 drawings); Sotheran; Mrs. J.P. Morgan; by descent to her sons, Junius S. and Henry S. Morgan.
Associated names:
Morgan, Jane Norton, 1868-1925, former owner.
Morgan, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1900-1982, former owner.
Morgan, Junius Spencer, 1892-1960, former owner.
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