Print made by Georg Dionysius Ehret, 1708–1770, Germanafter Georg Dionysius Ehret, 1708–1770, German
Title:
The Bay-Berry Tree, Myrtus arborea aromatica, Plate X
Date:
1750
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving with hand coloring on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/8 × 9 inches (33.3 × 22.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered upper left: "Plate X * | The Bay Berry | Tree"; upper right: "Page 145"; lower left: "OTIUM | DIGNITATI | To the Right Honourable | The Earl of Halifax | First Lord Commissioner of | Trade and Plantations | This Plate is humbly Inscrib'd, | &c."; lower right: "G.D.Ehret. Delin. & Sculp."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bernard Kosto, Yale 1957, MD 1962