Acanthus Spinosa
Print
29/04/1755 (published)
29/04/1755 (published)
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Colour plate depicting Acanthus Spinosa.
Object details
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Title | Acanthus 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. |
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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. |
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Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964. |
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Accession number | E.969-1963 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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