Millettia ferruginea (Hochst.) Baker: finished drawing with a few details excluded
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 15/16 × 12 1/8 inches (40.5 × 30.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, lower center: "Sassa or Buberra [...] | The parts of the flower as dissected here are to be transferred to the other Drawing No | 1 [...] the Large leaves here to be omitted [...] only the parts that [...] its kind of flowers"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.9113
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
botanical subject
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Paul Hulton, Luigi Balugani's drawings of African plants, From the collection made by James Bruce of Kinnaird on his travels to discover the source of the Nile 1767-1773 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1991, p. 88, pl. 18, QK98.183 B2 H85 1991 (YCBA)