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Chrysanthemum × rubellum by artists Lilian Snelling and Stella Ross-Craig, published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine in 1939 Stella Ross-Craig (19 March 1906 [ 2 ] – 6 February 2006) was an English illustrator best known as a prolific illustrator of native flora .
Trois crayons (French: [tʁwɑ kʁɛjɔ̃]; English: "three pencils") is a drawing technique using three colors of chalk: red (), black (a type of oil shale), and white.The paper used may be a mid-tone such as grey, blue, or tan. [1]
Mums, Chrysanths, 1820. Lise Cloquet (also known as Anne-Louise Cloquet; 1788 (Paris) –30 October 1860 (Paris)) [1] [2] [3] was a French botanical painter.. Cloquet was taught to draw by her father [4] and was influenced by the botanical illustrator Pierre-Joseph Redouté.
The chrysanthemum is said to have been favored by Tao Qian, an influential Chinese poet, and is symbolic of nobility. It is also one of the four symbolic seasonal flowers. A chrysanthemum festival is held each year in Tongxiang, near Hangzhou, China. [27] Chrysanthemums are the topic in hundreds of poems of China. [28]
In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. Captions. English. Lise Cloquet - Mums, Chrysanths, 1820.
The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings consists of 477 watercolour botanical drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore by unknown Chinese (probably Cantonese) artists that were commissioned between 1819 and 1823 by William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 13 May 1839). The paintings were meant to be of ...
The painting depicts a young girl standing alone and holding a bunch of white chrysanthemums in her hands. The girls' pale, thoughtful face has an anxious and solemn expression. She has loose bright-red hair, small red lips and slightly glittery, big, black eyes. She wears a simple blue and grey dress.
In Chinese art, the Four Gentlemen or Four Noble Ones (Chinese: 四君子; pinyin: Sì Jūnzǐ), is a collective term referring to four plants: the plum blossom, the orchid, the bamboo, and the chrysanthemum. [1] [2] The term compares the four plants to Confucian junzi, or "gentlemen".