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Viola Plant

Maker (German, 1708 - 1770)
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
Date1765
Mediumopaque watercolor over traces of graphite on vellum, annotation in pen and brown ink
Dimensionssheet/ image: 8 x 6 1/8 in. (20.3 x 15.6 cm.) mat: 19 x 12 1/2 in. (48.3 x 31.8 cm.)
SignedSigned and dated in lower right of recto: G.D. Ehret pinxit 1765
InscribedSigned and dated in lower right of recto: G.D. Ehret pinxit 1765 Inscribed in lower center of recto: Viola martia multiplia flore B. pin.
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Status
Not on view
Object number78.16
Terms
    Vitis Idoea Palustris; Symphoricarpos Orbiculatus
    Georg Dionysius Ehret
    n.d.
    Object number: 84.27.3
    Aloe Africana, Erecta, Rotundo
    Georg Dionysius Ehret
    n.d.
    Object number: 84.27.1
    Climbing Lily
    Georg Dionysius Ehret
    1763
    Object number: 84.26
    Cistus Ladaniferus
    Georg Dionysius Ehret
    1763
    Object number: 69.13A
    Aloe Africana, Flore Rubro
    Georg Dionysius Ehret
    n.d.
    Object number: 84.27.2
    Greengages and Other Fruit
    Georg Dionysius Ehret
    n.d.
    Object number: 68.35
    Liliaceae
    Georg Dionysius Ehret
    n.d.
    Object number: 70.26C
    Spergula Nodosa
    Georg Dionysius Ehret
    1768
    Object number: 70.26A
    Purple Flower Money Wort
    Georg Dionysius Ehret
    1765
    Object number: 70.26B
    Aquilegia
    Georg Dionysius Ehret
    n.d.
    Object number: 69.13B
    Nectarines
    Georg Dionysius Ehret
    n.d.
    Object number: 68.36
    Aloe Africana Minima Atroviridis; Haworthia Herbacea
    Georg Dionysius Ehret
    n.d.
    Object number: 84.27.6