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An album of Twenty-five very fine botanical studies in watercolour and bodycolour heightened with gum arabic on thin Japan paper. Titled 'Album Chinesischer Blumen'.

An album of Twenty-five very fine botanical studies in watercolour and bodycolour heightened with gum arabic on thin Japan paper. Titled 'Album Chinesischer Blumen'.
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Natural History, Travel & Exploration

[Canton late 18th Century]. Folio, (44cm x 35cm), 19th century quarter morocco gilt over pebbled cloth boards, with 25 botanical studies, the sheets predominantly 39.5cm x 32cm, each mounted on cream wove paper.

A collection of very fine and detailed watercolour studies of Chinese Flowers and Plants by Chinese artists, likely to have been produced in the workshops of the trading port of Canton, given the German title on the cover this collection was acquired and bound in Prussia.

The present works, large in format and in good condition, include the following botanical studies:

Glechoma Hederacea, Oriental Quince, White Camellia, Grevillea Petrophiloides, Sonchus Oleraceus, Asclepias Curassavica, Bauhinea Purpurea, Solidago Virgaurea, CaesalpinaPulcherrima, Combretum Indicum, Gardenia Radicans, Magnolia Liliflora, Impatiens Balsamina, Gossipium Barbadense, Lagerstroemia Indica, Lonicera and Jasminum Fruticans.

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