Pancratium 1738–70 Georg Dionysius Ehret German Born in Heidelberg, Ehret settled in London in 1738 and established a style of botanical drawing that emphasized botanical accuracy. Engravings after his drawings were published in several books and the artist became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1757. This sheet, with its striking placement of the subject against the white ground, beautifully represents the artist's mature style. From Dr. Christoph Joseph Trew, an eminent Nuremberg physician and botanist, Ehret had learned the importance of floral sexual organs, and here carefully described t
Pancratium 1738–70 Georg Dionysius Ehret German Born in Heidelberg, Ehret settled in London in 1738 and established a style of botanical drawing that emphasized botanical accuracy. Engravings after his drawings were published in several books and the artist became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1757. This sheet, with its striking placement of the subject against the white ground, beautifully represents the artist's mature style. From Dr. Christoph Joseph Trew, an eminent Nuremberg physician and botanist, Ehret had learned the importance of floral sexual organs, and here carefully described the stamens and pistils of a flowering Pancratium (likely the subspecies Pancratium maritimum or maritime daffodil), a bulb that grows in dry, sandy climates near the shores of the Mediterranean. The stenciled title at lower left suggests that the work was drawn as part of a Pancratium. Georg Dionysius Ehret (German, Heidelberg 1708–1770 London). 1738–70. Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor), with traces of black chalk on vellum. Drawings
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