Orchis Bifolia (Butterfly Orchis)

William Curtis, English, 1746 - 1799

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1777

Engraving with hand coloring

Sheet: 18 3/4 × 11 1/2 in. (47.6 × 29.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Harold Goddard Rugg, Class of 1906

PR.957.209.3

Portfolio / Series Title

from William Curtis, Flora Londinensis, or, Plates and descriptions of scuh plants as grow wild in the environs of London (London: for the author and B. White, 1777), no. 65.

Geography

Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Harold Goddard Rugg (1883-1957, Class of 1906), Hanover, New Hampshire; given by his Estate to present collection, 1957.

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