![EHRET, Georg Dionysius (1708-1770). [Tulips.] Original gouache on vellum, heightened with white and gum arabic, signed "G.D.Ehret. pinxt" (lower right), inscribed. (Creases where previously folded and bound, some soiling along upper right, some light surface rubbing.) Circa 1740. 19½ x 13 in. (495 x 330 mm).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/NYR/2006_NYR_01677_0263_000(121918).jpg?w=1)
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EHRET, Georg Dionysius (1708-1770). [Tulips.] Original gouache on vellum, heightened with white and gum arabic, signed "G.D.Ehret. pinxt" (lower right), inscribed. (Creases where previously folded and bound, some soiling along upper right, some light surface rubbing.) Circa 1740. 19½ x 13 in. (495 x 330 mm).
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EHRET, Georg Dionysius (1708-1770). [Tulips.] Original gouache on vellum, heightened with white and gum arabic, signed "G.D.Ehret. pinxt" (lower right), inscribed. (Creases where previously folded and bound, some soiling along upper right, some light surface rubbing.) Circa 1740. 19½ x 13 in. (495 x 330 mm).
A VERY FINE EXAMPLE OF EHRET'S BOTANICAL ART. His "greatest merit is that he succeded as few other botanical artists have succeded; in being at once both botanist and artist" (Blunt). Ehret, the greatest botanical artist of the mid 18th century, was one of the main artists for the Hortus nitidissimis, contributing nearly one quarter of the illustrations and making the Hortus the masterpiece it is. Ehret favored gouache and bodycolor on vellum to transparent watercolors.
A VERY FINE EXAMPLE OF EHRET'S BOTANICAL ART. His "greatest merit is that he succeded as few other botanical artists have succeded; in being at once both botanist and artist" (Blunt). Ehret, the greatest botanical artist of the mid 18th century, was one of the main artists for the Hortus nitidissimis, contributing nearly one quarter of the illustrations and making the Hortus the masterpiece it is. Ehret favored gouache and bodycolor on vellum to transparent watercolors.