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Acanthus Spinosa

Print
29/04/1755 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Colour plate depicting Acanthus Spinosa.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleAcanthus Spinosa (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured engraving
Brief description
Print entitled 'Acanthus Spinosa'. Plate 7 from Volume 1 of Figures of the most beautiful, useful and uncommon plants described in the Gardeners Dictionary…, by Philip Miller, F.R.S. Hand-coloured engraving by T. Jeffreys, possibly after a drawing by G. D. Ehret. London, 1755.
Physical description
Colour plate depicting Acanthus Spinosa.
Dimensions
  • Height: 33.7cm
  • Width: 21.6cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963. London: HMSO, 1964.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'T. Jeffreys sculp Acanthus rarioribus & brevioribus aculeis munitus: Journ: Inst: 176. Published according to the Act by P. Miller April 29, 1755.' (Lettered)
  • 'Pl.VII.' (Numbered)
Credit line
Given by Mr John V. G. Mallet
Object history
This print was plate 7 of Volume I of Figures of the most beautiful, useful and uncommon plants described in the Gardeners Dictionary…, by Philip Miller, F.R.S., published by the author, London, 1755-60.

The design was used for the decoration of a Chelsea plate of ca.1755 which is in the Department of Ceramics, C.58-1948. The engraving and the plate are produced as figs. 1 and 2 to 'G. D. Ehret's Botanical Designs on Chelsea Porcelain' by Patrick Synge-Hutchinson, in Vol.142 of the Connoisseur, July to December 1958, where the author suggests that the original drawing for the engraving may have been the work of Georg Dionysus Ehret.
Production
It is not certain whether the drawing from which this print is taken was by Georg Dionysus Ehret.
Associated object
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Accession number
E.969-1963

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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