- Title:
- Brucea antidysenterica J. Miller (James Bruce's Tree): finished drawing of part stem with flowering shoots and leafy shoots
- Additional Title(s):
Brucea Antidysenterica
Wooginoos- 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."
Signed in pen and brown in lower left: "Fred.k Plydare Nodder Pinx.t 1777"
- 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:
- botanical subject | leaves | plant | stem
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:11189
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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. 100-101, pl. 31, QK98.183 B2 H85 1991 (YCBA) [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) [YCBA]