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

Auricula Ursi

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 number2010.11.8
Collections
Visual DescriptionBotanical drawing of Auricula Ursi (bear's ear primula), a plant with purple flowers and green leaves. Text at the bottom reads "Herzog von Cumberland." Plate 39, engravings, hand colored, from "Hortus Nitidissimis...", by Georg Dionysius Ehret and Christoph Jakob Trew (German, 1695-1769), Nuremburg, 1768.
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