Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770, Italian, Salvia nilotica Juss.ex Jacq. (Nile Sage): finished drawing of a flowering shoot and root, undated
- Title:
- Salvia nilotica Juss.ex Jacq. (Nile Sage): finished drawing of a flowering shoot and root
- Additional Title(s):
- Sauge du Nil No.5
- Date:
- undated
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 15/16 × 12 1/16 inches (40.5 × 30.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, lower left: "Sauge du Nil | No 5"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.8888
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- botanical subject
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:15423
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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. 84, pl. 16, QK98.183 B2 H85 1991 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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