Papaya
Botanical Print
1750 (printed)
1750 (printed)
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This papaya is given a scientific presentation with detailed dissections of flower and plant parts.
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.
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.
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| Materials and techniques | Hand-coloured engraving |
| Brief description | Papaya (Carica papaya L.); hand-coloured engraving after a drawing by Georg Dionysius Ehret, engraved by Johann Hakob Haid (1704-67); London; 1750; for Christoph Jakob Trew's 'Plantae Selectae' (Nuremberg, 1750-1773); proof of plate vii, part 1 |
| Physical description | Botanical print of a papaya fruit shown whole and halved; behind this a drawing showing the stem of the plant with leaves and yellow flowers, and top right dissections of the flower parts. |
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| Gallery label | Georg Dionysius Ehret 1708-70
Papaya (Carica papaya L.)
1750
Christoph Jacob Trew's book 'Plantae selectae' reflects a new trend in lavish, privately funded publications on exotic plants. It includes about one hundred of Georg Ehret's finest studies, among them this image of a papaya. They range in style from the naturalistic and pictorial to the abstract and diagrammatic.
London
Hand-coloured engraving; by Johann Jakob Haid (1704-67)
Proof of plate vii from Christoph Jacob Trew, 'Plantae selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini...'
(Nuremberg, 1750-73)
Presented by H. Stuart Thompson
V&A: E.915-1924(2011) |
| Credit line | Given by H. Stuart Thompson |
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| Summary | This papaya is given a scientific presentation with detailed dissections of flower and plant parts. 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. |
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| Accession number | E.915-1924 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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