Perroquet Rouge
Watercolour
ca. 1744 (painted)
ca. 1744 (painted)
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This was one of the 44 illustrations Ehret contributed to Hortus Nitidissimus (1750-92), a publication devoted to garden plants by the German physician and botanist Dr Christoph Jakob Trew (1695-1769) of Nuremburg. This was essentially a florilegium celebrating the beauties of flowering plants, and without any higher scientific purpose, as the subtitle asserts: 'The flower-garden in finest bloom throughout the year, or pictures of the most beautiful flowers.' This would explain the peculiarly exaggerated decorative character of the portrait, with its stylized rococo sinuosity.
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| Materials and techniques | Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum |
| Brief description | Parrot Tulip (Tulipa gesneriana) or Perroquet rouge by George Dionysius Ehret (1708-70); watercolour and bodycolour on vellum; 1744; England |
| Physical description | Botanical drawing of a parrot tulip, depicting a single stalk with a large green leaf at the bottom of the stalk, and a large flower in full bloom at the top. The flower is red in colour, with a small bit of yellow in the centre, the petals appear to the curl slightly at the edges. |
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| Summary | This was one of the 44 illustrations Ehret contributed to Hortus Nitidissimus (1750-92), a publication devoted to garden plants by the German physician and botanist Dr Christoph Jakob Trew (1695-1769) of Nuremburg. This was essentially a florilegium celebrating the beauties of flowering plants, and without any higher scientific purpose, as the subtitle asserts: 'The flower-garden in finest bloom throughout the year, or pictures of the most beautiful flowers.' This would explain the peculiarly exaggerated decorative character of the portrait, with its stylized rococo sinuosity. |
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| Accession number | D.582-1886 |
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| Record created | February 14, 2003 |
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