Cat's Claw (Mimosa circinalis)

published 1731-1743

Mark Catesby

Artist, English, 1679 - 1749

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving with hand coloring on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Dr. and Mrs. George Benjamin Green

  • Dimensions

    plate: 34.9 x 26 cm (13 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 50.6 x 34.8 cm (19 15/16 x 13 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.163.43

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Natural History, Vol. vol.2, no. 97


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. and Mrs. George Benjamin Green, Virginia; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1771

  • Catesby, Mark. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. London: 1771.

Inscriptions

center left in plate (in blank space near pod): MC; upper left in plate: 97.; by later hand, lower left in graphite: VIII/SL; by later hand, lower center in graphite: Catesby 1743

Watermarks

IV

Wikidata ID

Q74894839


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