Clematis

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 vine with flowers. One brown stalk is depicted at the top of the composition, branching out and down, with leaves on petioles. The green leaf blades are long and heart-shaped with lobed margins. The flowers are in branching clusters on long green pedicels. The flowers have 7 to 8 wide free petals radiating out from multiple yellow and crimson stamens. Some flowers are depicted semi-open and as white-green oval buds. There are leaves and flowers depicted in a wash of colours.

The painting is marked "NiNA JONES" and "CLEMATis"
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Object detail

Object Type
painting
Media and Materials
Watercolour/Dye and Pigment
Paper
Measurements
Mount = 507 h x 357 w Composition = 420 h x 272 w
Measurements
Composition = Height x Width (mm) = 420 x 272mm
Mount = Height x Width (mm) = 507 x 357mm
Maker
Subject Category
Botanical
Accession Number
A4882
AC Number
AC166
Credit Line
Jones, Nina (1871-1926). Clematis, circa 1920. Watercolour on paper. Nelson Provincial Museum Collection: A4882 AC166

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