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Studies of flowers and cherries c.1680

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c.1680

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A page of watercolour studies depicting Flanders Cherries and three flowers including a fine striped Ranunculus, Borage-flowered Comfrey and Red Wild Campion.
These watercolour studies form a page from Alexander Marshal's Florilegium, or flower-book, an album which comprises 159 folios depicting over 600 different plants as well as animals, birds and insects. As was typical for such an album, the watercolours were arranged more or less seasonally by Marshal, who also annotated the versos of the sheets with identifications, in English and Latin, of the plants depicted. Marshal was a gentleman with strong connections amongst the seventeenth-century gardening milieu, and the Florilegium records the flowers that he had in his own gardens and those in the gardens of his friends.
Descriptive Medium: 'Watercolour and bodycolour'