La Balsamine (Impatiens, from the Collection des plantes usuelles, curieuses, et etrangeres)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty

Title

La Balsamine (Impatiens, from the Collection des plantes usuelles, curieuses, et etrangeres)

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1767

Medium

Etching, handcolored on cream laid paper (discolored to buff)

Inscriptions

Inscribed into image, upper right: "la Balsamin."; lower center: "cauti..."

Dimensions

Image/plate: 29 × 19.5 cm (11 7/16 × 7 11/16 in.); Sheet: 44 × 29 cm (17 3/8 × 11 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

2013.539

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