Fragments de Vegetaux Etrangers (fragments of foreign plants, wood, bark)
Information
Title
Fragments de Vegetaux Etrangers (fragments of foreign plants, wood, bark)
Author or creator
Unsigned
Record type
Drawings
Original Reference
A/RV/V2/50
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