Fragments de Vegetaux Etrangers (fragments of foreign plants, wood, bark)
Information
Title
Fragments de Vegetaux Etrangers (fragments of foreign plants, wood, bark)
Record type
Drawings
Original Reference
A/RV/V2/50
Author or creator
Unsigned
Date
c.1800
Scope & content
Watercolour of six fragments of wood, bark etc from 'foreign' plants. LC: 'Fragments de Vegetaux Etrangers / 1. de bambou, vu a deux faces / 2. Bois de lierre avec sou ecorsse / 3. sa feuille / 4. sou gland / 5. Chomerpos exella [sic] mas ceci est copie conune [?] no.1 et no. 2 d'apres de sieces esistantes dans l'ecole centrale a Bruges / 6. D'une tiye [tige] ca Jucca Gloriosa de la serre de Mr. Dameriu [?] a Bruges.. Fragments of foreign plants / 1. bamboo, seen from two sides / 2. Wood of Ivy, with bark / 3. [ivy] leaf / 4. Acron / 5. Chamaerops excelsa, is copied from pieces at the Ecole Centrale of the Departement de la Lys, Bruges. Chamaerops excelsa is a synonym, the current botanical name is Trachycarpus fortunei, the English vernacular name is Trachycarpus fortunei Trachycarpus fortunei. / 6. Stem from the Yucca gloriosa from the greenhouse of Mr. Dameriu of Bruges.' The English vernacular name for Yucca gloriosa is Spanish dagger.
Extent
1 item
Physical description
watercolour painting (technique). watercolour (paint). laid paper