Orthoceras solandri
Maker and Role
Artist: Nina Jones (b.1871, d.1926)
Production date
Circa 1920
Description
Watercolour painting on rectangular sheet of brown paper, with a brown window mount, and backing. The painting is a botanical illustration of part of a plant with flowers. The green leaf blades are long with pointed tips. The flower stalks are brown-red with alternate flowers at the terminal ends of the stalks. The flowers have bilateral purple petals and two long antennae-like protrusions pointing up on both sides, with large green inferior ovaries. There are leaves and flowers depicted in a brown wash.
The painting is marked "NINA JONES" and "OrthocErAs soLANdri"
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Object detail
Mount = Height x Width (mm) = 405 x 296mm
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