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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Caryophyllus III & IV
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Caryophyllus III & IV

Artist Georg Dionysius Ehret (German, 1708 - 1770)
Date1768
MediumEngraving, hand-colored
Dimensions16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Lawrence Reed Miller
Object number2010.11.6
DescriptionBotanical drawing of two flowers; left: Caryophyllus III (carnation) with white petals with red streaks and "Czaarin" text; right: Caryophyllus IV (carnation) with red petals and white streaks, a moth on the stem, and "Le Prince De Piemont" text. Plate 21, engravings, hand colored, from "Hortus Nitidissimis...", by Georg Dionysius Ehret and Christoph Jakob Trew (German, 1695-1769), Nuremburg, 1768.

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Georg Dionysius Ehret
1768
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Georg Dionysius Ehret
1768
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Georg Dionysius Ehret
1768
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Georg Dionysius Ehret
1768
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Michael Kenna
Negative: 1987 Print: 1992
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Unknown Chinese Artist
18th century or later
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Unknown Chinese Artist
Zhou dynasty (1050-256 BCE)
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Unknown Chinese Artist
Neolithic Period or later
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Unknown Japanese Artist
Meiji period (1868-1912), 1899
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Vietnamese
15th-16th century
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Joseph Stella
c. 1922