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Fane (Elizabeth Parker, Lady) Botanical Album
mssHM 84101  
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Botanical album 1765-1767

Scope and Contents

The paintings listed below were identified both by the dealer who sold this album to the Huntington, as well as briefly by three of the Huntington's botanical curators. A number of the identifications are necessarily speculative and might prove incorrect or warrant greater details to identify some of the flowers to the specific level.
Page 1

[Lime flower]

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With Ringlet butterfly.
Page 2

[Cyclamen]

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With Swallowtail butterfly.
Page 3

[Rowan berries. Sorbus genus]

Page 4

[Bramble with flowers and blackberries]

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With bug-eaten leaf.
Page 5

[Probably physalis]

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Not hellebore, as originally described by the dealer.
Page 6

[Meadow vetchling (?)]

Page 7

[Vipers bugloss]

Page 8

[A plant in the verbascum genus. Mockmullen?]

Page 9

"The Burnet leav'd Rose, E. Parker" 1765 February

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With Burnet moth.
Page 10

[Red rose]

Page 11

[Red wild rose?]

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Possibly a little mallow.
Page 12

[Yellow jasmine]

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Perhaps Jasmina fruticans.
Page 13

[Field bindweed growing amidst wheat]

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Drawn in summertime, as wheat is in full grain.
Page 14

[Hoary cinquefoil]

Page 15

"Hoary Violet"

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With butterfly.
Page 16

[Small red rose]

Page 17

[Nigella]

Page 18

"Yellow Indian Jasmine E. Parker" 1767 February 27

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With Red Admiral butterfly.
Page 19

"Punica quæ Malum fert Granatum. Cæsalp. Pomegranate"

Page 20

"Periwinkle with a double flower" 1766 February

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Huntington botanic curators note it's usually more of a blue color; this is a cultivated selection.
Page 21

[A cultivated Aquilae]

Page 22

[Rock rose]

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Cistus / cistacae.
Page 23

[Hawthorn - Crategus genus]

Page 24

[Might be a wild gofrina: ameranthacae; perhaps Gomphrena globose]

Page 25

[Red and yellow primrose] "E. Parker" 1765 January