
可否一睹真容?
倫敦, 英国
仍属馆藏,只是目前没有展出。
This painting of a magnolia is done on western paper, specially imported for its high quality. Exotic flora and fauna were of great interest to British botanists in the 18th and 19th centuries, and such enthusiasm gradually filtered down to the general public. Travellers often returned to Britain with foreign plants and, more commonly, paintings depicting numerous species of tropical flowers and fruits.
维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆