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Part of collection(s): drawings, camera lucida, others
Author/Artist: Herschel, John Frederick William
Title: Satyrium erectum Swartz (Orchidaceae)
Description: Drawings, made with the camera lucida, from Warner, Brian and John Rourke: Flora Herscheliana. Sir John and Lady Herschel at the Cape 1834 to 1838. Johannesburg (The Brenthurst Press) 1996, p. 83, plates 67 and 68
Year: Left image: September 21, 1837. Right image: October 5, 1837.
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Medium/Material: Pencil drawing
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Copyright: By permission of The Brenthurst Press and the Brenthurst Library
Inscription: Left image bottom: „Crimson Disa from De Koch’s and Genadenthal Mountains. Grown subsequently in my Bulb garden. Outlined Sept. 21 1837.“ Right image bottom: „Crimson Satyrium fully opened Oct. 5/37“; „Satyrium Roseum (Genadenthal)“ on the reverse.
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