Code: 11257
Dimensions:
Anglo-Indian Company School
Botanical Illustration "Syngenesia Frustranca" (Helianthus Annaus)
Inscribed in ink lower left
Watercolour and gouache on laid paper
19th Century
Measures:-
34 cm (high) x 25.8 cm (wide) (Image)
43 cm (high) x 37 cm (wide) (Framed)
A beautiful and accomplished 19th Century 'Company School' botanical illustration of 'Common Sunflowers'. Although sunflowers originated in the Americas and Caribbean, by the 19th Century the species had been widely cultivated.
For another Company School watercolour of sunflowers, possibly by an artist whose name was "Siraje Mukki", see Royal Botanic Gardens Kew 19600271.