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Jasminum vulgatius flore albo
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Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770)
Jasminum vulgatius flore albo
signed and dated 'G.D. Ehret. pinxit 1757.' (lower right), titled 'IASMINUM vulgatius flore albo. C.B.P.' (lower centre), and further inscribed by a later hand 'This beautiful Caterpillar which produces the Jessamine Hawk Moth was found in considerable numbers feeding on Ye Potatoe, which seems to be its natural food at Winborn in Dorset, there was one found at the same time, viz August 1767 at Merly in the same county on a privet hedge, & painted by Mr Ehret ten years after he had painted the moth, no specimen of the Caterpillar being then known except in Rosel's & Wilks's books ye latter of whom confesses he had never seen it himself & made use only of Dandridges drawing, which gives no true Idea of it.' in the lower margin
bodycolour on vellum
19 3/8 x 13 7/8in. (49.4 x 35.5cm.)
Jasminum vulgatius flore albo
signed and dated 'G.D. Ehret. pinxit 1757.' (lower right), titled 'IASMINUM vulgatius flore albo. C.B.P.' (lower centre), and further inscribed by a later hand 'This beautiful Caterpillar which produces the Jessamine Hawk Moth was found in considerable numbers feeding on Ye Potatoe, which seems to be its natural food at Winborn in Dorset, there was one found at the same time, viz August 1767 at Merly in the same county on a privet hedge, & painted by Mr Ehret ten years after he had painted the moth, no specimen of the Caterpillar being then known except in Rosel's & Wilks's books ye latter of whom confesses he had never seen it himself & made use only of Dandridges drawing, which gives no true Idea of it.' in the lower margin
bodycolour on vellum
19 3/8 x 13 7/8in. (49.4 x 35.5cm.)