Commiphora gileadensis (L.) C. Chr. (Balm of Gilead, Opobalsam): finished drawing of fruit, dissected fruits, and leaves
Date:
ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 × 9 5/8 inches (30.5 × 24.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, center: "Leaves to be left out fruit to be transfered to "; inscribed on verso in pen and black ink, upper center: "Balessan No 3 | The front to be transfered to the front of No 2 | in the order it stands in the No3 but | no notice to be taken of the [...] so that there are to be only two drawings of the | Balesan No 1 + No 2"; inscribed on verso in pen and black ink, lower right: "B"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.8693
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
James Bruce, Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 , Edinburgh, 1790, Precedes p. 17 (vol. 5), DT377 B88 1790+ Oversize (YCBA Rare Books)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. 75, pl. 88, QK98.183 B2 H85 1991 (YCBA)