Live Auction 6911Travel, Science and Natural History
Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770)
Lot 21

Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770)

Impatiens pedunculis multifloris solitariis

Closed9 October 2012

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Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770)
Impatiens pedunculis multifloris solitariis
signed and dated 'G.D. Ehret. pinxit. 1762.' (lower right), titled 'IMPATIENS pedunculis multifloris solitariis, foliis ovatis, geniculis caulinis tumontibus. Linn.' (lower centre) and further titled 'Noli me tangere Virginiana.' (lower left)
bodycolour on vellum
18¾ x 13¼in. (47.5 x 33.6cm.)

Specialist note

This watercolour seems to be the design for the engraved version of 'Impatiens noli tangere Virginiana' that appears in D.D. Christophorus Jacabus Trew's Plantae Rariores (Nuremberg, 1763), though the engraved version lacks the moth.