Plant Study

1860s

Robert Burrows

Associated Names
Robert Burrows

Artist, British, 1810 - 1883

There are broad, round leaves with a textured surface. The leaves are growing densely along the ground with some overlapping. The color palette is monochromatic with shades of sepia and brown. The leaves start from the bottom left, spread across the bottom, and fill up the center and right side of the image, appearing to emerge from a textured background.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's Fine Art Auctions, New York, 1988); (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York), 1988; NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2010

  • The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848 - 1875, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2010 - 2011, no. 13.

2019

  • The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

by unknown hand, inscribed on negative, lower right corner: 23; by unknown hand, lower right corner of mount in black ink: 137; on verso, by unknown hand, lower left corner, inverted in graphite: RB 1002.

Wikidata ID

Q64159503

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