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Un-named plant
Artist: Port Jackson Painter
Created: [between 1788 and 1798]
Dimensions: 31.9 x 20.3 cm
Reference: Port Jackson Drawing - no. 15

 
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Drawing of a branch from a flowering plant against a plain background. The main stem is upright and arranged centrally on the sheet, with dark green deeply lobed leaves arranged in pairs and racemes of yellow and red pea-like flowers.

 
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  • Port Jackson Painter]
  • The drawing is unsigned and undated.
  • The drawing is inscribed in brown ink at the top left corner with the number "29", and on the reverse "28". These refer to the pre-1984 numbering system for the Port Jackson Collection.
  • The drawing is window mounted in cream paper which has been annotated in pencil at top "Thistle", and the the reverse in pencil "PORT JACKSON COLLECTION 15".
  • The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
  • By permission of the trustees of the Natural History Museum (London).
  • Two sets of transparencies held in the Natural History Museum (London) General Library and Picture Library: Picture Library order number 12615
  • Sir Joseph Banks bequest 1827
  • Data sheet available.