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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
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
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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.
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Caryophyllus III & IV
Georg Dionysius Ehret
1768
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Pancratium
Georg Dionysius Ehret
1768
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Caryophyllus V
Georg Dionysius Ehret
1768
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Corona Imperialis
Georg Dionysius Ehret
1768
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
334 Jew's Ears
Elizabeth Blackwell
1739
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Dachau, Light Switch in Crematorium Complex
Andrea Robbins and Max Becher
1994
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista
Circular Weight
China
Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE)
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista
Bear with a Crab
China
Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911)
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Zulu Beer pot lid (imbenge)
Zulu Artist
1960s
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Zulu Beer pot Lid (imbenge)
Zulu Artist
1960s
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Zulu Beer pot Lid (imbenge)
Zulu Artist
1960s
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Zulu Beer pot Lid (imbenge)
Zulu Artist
1960s

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