Crinnm amabile Indian archipelago Artists_John James Audubon Their vellums form the nucleus

Their vellums form the nucleus of the group of more than six thousand sheets known as the Vélins du Muséum (formerly the Vélins du Roi) that Louis XIV inherited from Gaston d’Orléans

This image brilliantly captures American landscape painting of the period at its most heightened and rapturous

inscribed and dated ‘The Campagna di Roma

” but the southern has the inscription: “Anno d 1497 haec terra cum adiacetib

Crinnm amabile Indian archipelago Artists_John James Audubon Their vellums form the nucleusSertum orchidaceum, an album so titled of watercolour drawings of orchids. English, mid nineteenth century Watercolour drawings of orchids and flowering plants, captioned at foot HIGHLY ACCOMPLISHED LARGE SCALE WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS. A pencil note on the fly leaf reads These drawings are thought to be done by the wife of MacFarlane the celebrated orchid painter (i. e. James Laird MacFarlane, 1836 1913). PROVENANCE: Samuel Williams Fuller (c. 1777 1857)