Cyperus species 2: finished drawing of flowering plant and root
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 15/16 × 12 5/16 inches (40.5 × 31.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper left: "4"; in graphite, lower left: "cinque piedi Inglesi"; on verso in pen and brown ink, center left: "Cyperus"; in graphite, lower center: "[...]"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.6469(d)
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
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. 108, pl. 287, QK98.183 B2 H85 1991 (YCBA)