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

Caryophyllus V

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 number2010.11.9

Collections

PRINTS AND DRAWINGS BEFORE 1850

DescriptionBotanical drawing of Caryophyllus V (carnation), a pink and white flower on a green stem. Text at the bottom reads "General Clayton." Plate 45, engravings, hand colored, from "Hortus Nitidissimis...", by Georg Dionysius Ehret and Christoph Jakob Trew (German, 1695-1769), Nuremburg, 1768.