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Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Shorts Nearly one hundred watercolors and drawings of fruits, flowers, ani­mals, and saints by artists working in the cities of Jaipur and Bikaner, India, will remain on view at the Carnegie Mellon University’s Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation through Friday, February 24, 1995. The exhibition of natural history works of art features pieces created in Rajasthan, the desert state of...
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Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Shorts “Women of Flowers: Victorian Women Botanical Illustrators” will be on exhibit, at Longwood Gardens from Saturday, Janu­ary 23 [1999], to Tuesday, February 23 [1999]. This spe­cial exhibit showcases works by artists fea­tured in garden writer Jack Kramer’s book of the same title. For more information, write: Longwood Gardens, P.O. Box 501, Kennett Square, PA 19348-0501;...
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Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Shorts “Elocution, Orthography, and Mental Arithmetic: Victorian School Days,” an exhibit examining the nineteenth-century educational experience from the one-room rural schoolhouse to the sprawling urban university, is on view at Penny­packer Mills through Saturday, June 30, 2001. The exhibit interprets these experiences through objects and artifacts originally belonging to members of the...
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Iris Painting by Georg Dionys Ehret (1745)

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Iris Painting by Georg Dionys Ehret (1745) One of the treasures of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation in Pittsburgh is a 1745 gouache painting on vellum by the eminent German­-English artist Georg Dionys Ehret (1710-1770) depicting two species of Iris, Iris susiana L. (Mourning Iris) and Iris latifolia Mill. (English Iris). The Hunt Institute is fortunate to own more than two hundred and twenty-five paintings by Ehret; most...
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