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Unknown Maker, German

Buttercups, Red Clover, and Plantain

Description

Maker

Unknown Maker, German
School of Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528)

Culture

German

Title

Buttercups, Red Clover, and Plantain

Year

1526

Medium

  • Watercolor and gouache on vellum

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Watercolor and gouache on vellum

Materials

gouache, watercolor

Supports

  • Vellum

Dimensions

29.7 x 21.8 cm (11 11/16 x 8 9/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed in gouache LR: "1526"

Verso: stamped with the collector's mark of Charles Sackville Bale (1791-1880; Lugt 640)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Brockholst Smith in memory of her mother, Jane W. Bradley

Object Number

38.053

Type

  • Drawings and Watercolors

Projects & Publications

Publications

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 15: Green

RISD Museum’s Manual 15 Celebrates Green

New life is always shown to us through mokingpu, the color green-the light green stems of rabbitbrush, one of the few colors seen the winter; the tender green shoots of new corn that emerge in the spring against the backdrop of the dry brown earth. Green offers hope. Green represents life.

-Susan Sekaquaptewa

A welcome splash of color after a long winter, the RISD Museum’s fifteenth issue of Manual is awash in shades of green, celebrating the color's myriad associations with nature and growth, environmentalism and sustainable practices, newness and hope (as well as poison and currency) and delving into the histories of specific pigments and processes. Manual 15 opens with an introductory essay by Hopi grower Susan Sekaquaptewa, who details the soft hues of the flora of Northern Arizona. “You appreciate plants more when you develop a relationship with them,” she explains.

This issue of Manual is supported in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional generous support is provided by the RISD Museum Associates and Sotheby’s.

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Exhibition History

Design and Description
Renaissance and Baroque Drawings
Jan 27, 2006 – Apr 09, 2006

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This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Unknown Maker, German
School of Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528)
Buttercups, Red Clover, and Plantain, 1526
Watercolor and gouache on vellum
29.7 x 21.8 cm (11 11/16 x 8 9/16 inches)
Gift of Mrs. Brockholst Smith in memory of her mother, Jane W. Bradley 38.053

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