Brucea antidysenterica J. Miller (James Bruce's Tree): finished drawing of part stem with flowering shoots and leafy shoots
Date:
1777
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on vellum
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 13/16 x 14 1/16 inches (47.8 x 35.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in pen and brown ink lower center, "Brucea antidysenterica; in artist's hand in pen and black ink lower left: "Fred.k Polydone Nodder. Pinx. 1777"; and inscribed on back in James Bruce's hand in pen and brown ink: "Wooginous or Bucca no. 2 the flower her to be copied into the / smaller drawing no. 1."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.8882
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
leaves | stem | botanical subject | plant
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. 100-101, pl. 31, QK98.183 B2 H85 1991 (YCBA)Joanna Marschner, Enlightened Princesses : Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn, 2017, p. 497, 498, fig. 29.29, NX543 +.E55 2017 Oversize (YCBA)