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Pancratium
Pancratium
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Pancratium

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 number2010.11.7
Visual DescriptionBotanical drawing of Pancratium (sea daffodil), a white flower with green leaves; a bulb sits next to the plant. Plate 32, engravings, hand colored, from "Hortus Nitidissimis...", by Georg Dionysius Ehret and Christoph Jakob Trew (German, 1695-1769), Nuremburg, 1768.
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