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Tacca leontopetaloides

Tacca leontopetaloides
 painted 1769; printed 1988
plate 669 from Banks’ Florilegium, part XXXI: Society Islands

Medium
colour engraving and etching (à la poupée)
Edition
ed. 26/100
Printing/Publishing
printed by Gordon Robertson and Edward Egerton-Williams, London; published by Alecto Historical Editions, London in association with The British Museum (Natural History)
Inscription
embossed and inscribed in pencil l.l.: BANKS’ FLORILEGIUM / PLATE No. 669 EDITION No. 26/100
embossed and inscribed in pencil l.r.: GR (in an oval) (dragon rampant) AHE (monogram) BM (banksia flower) (NH) ©1988
printed in ink (on mount) l.l.: S. Parkinson pinx. 1769
printed in ink (on mount) l.c.: PLATE 669 / TACCA LEONTOPETALOIDES (Linnaeus) Kuntze / Chaitaea tacca / Society Islands / 13 April - 9 August 1769
printed in ink (on mount) l.r.: W. Tringham sculps.
Accession Number
2013.416.669
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by Rio Tinto Limited through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2013
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display