Dracophyllum longifolium - Nei Nei
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 shrub with flowers, depicted in fragments. The leaves are closely stacked one above the other. The leaf blades are green-white and spear-shaped. The small white tubular flowers are in clusters on red-brown stalks, with orange-brown sheathing leaf bases at the terminal ends of leaf stems. A small pencil drawing of part of a stem is visible at the base of the plant.
The painting is marked "NiNA JONES" and “DrAcophyLLum LoNgifolium – NEI NEI.”
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Object detail
Mount = Height x Width (mm) = 460 x 357mm
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