Creeping Cereus
Botanical Print
1752 (printed)
1752 (printed)
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Christoph Jacob Trew's book 'Plantae selectae...' reflects a new trend in lavish, privately funded publications on exotic plants in the eighteenth century. It includes about one hundred of Georg Ehret's finest studies. They range in style from the naturalistic and pictorial to the abstract and diagrammatic.
Georg Dionysius Ehret was an outstandingly successful botanical artist. He had family and professional links with the Chelsea Physic Garden so was well placed to study many exotics and new arrivals.
This cactus is given a scientific presentation with detailed dissections of flower and plant parts.
Georg Dionysius Ehret was an outstandingly successful botanical artist. He had family and professional links with the Chelsea Physic Garden so was well placed to study many exotics and new arrivals.
This cactus is given a scientific presentation with detailed dissections of flower and plant parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Hand-coloured engraving |
| Brief description | Creeping Cereus (Disocactus flagelliformis (L.) Barthlott); hand-coloured engraving by Johann Jakob Haid after a drawing by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-70); 1752; proof of plate XXX, part 3 for 'Plantae Selectae...' by Christoph Jakob Trew (Nuremberg, 1750-1773) |
| Physical description | Botanical print of a pink-flowered cactus with trailing fronds, in a blue pot. Arranged across the top are drawings of parts of the plant. |
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| Gallery label | Georg Dionysius Ehret
Creeping Cereus (Disocactus flagelliformis (L.) Barthlott)
1752
Georg Dionysius Ehret was an outstandingly successful botanical artist. He had family and professional links with the Chelsea Physic Garden so was well placed to study many exotics and new arrivals. This cactus is given a scientific presentation with detailed dissections of flower and plant parts.
Nuremberg
Hand-colourerd engraving: by Johann Jakob Haid (1704-67)
Proof of plate xxx from Christoph Jacob Trew, 'Plantae selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini...'
(Nuremberg, 1750-73)
Presented by H. Stuart Thompson
V&A: E.917-1924(2011) |
| Credit line | Given by H. Stuart Thompson |
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| Summary | Christoph Jacob Trew's book 'Plantae selectae...' reflects a new trend in lavish, privately funded publications on exotic plants in the eighteenth century. It includes about one hundred of Georg Ehret's finest studies. They range in style from the naturalistic and pictorial to the abstract and diagrammatic. Georg Dionysius Ehret was an outstandingly successful botanical artist. He had family and professional links with the Chelsea Physic Garden so was well placed to study many exotics and new arrivals. This cactus is given a scientific presentation with detailed dissections of flower and plant parts. |
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| Accession number | E.917-1924 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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