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  Lychee - Artist unknown

The Miscellaneous Indian Drawings Collection - Artist unknown
Lychees (Nephelium litchi cambess), c. 1800.
Watercolour on paper, 278 x 334 mm.

The collection known as the Miscellaneous Indian Drawings has a complex and intriguing history. It consists of hundreds of beautiful watercolours of plants presumably drawn from Indian botanical gardens during the early to late nineteenth century.

 

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