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1998	We acquired this object. Work on this object began.
2012	We photographed this object.
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Sidewall, Botanical

This is a sidewall. It was designed by Elizabeth Dow and made by Elizabeth Dow Ltd.. It is dated 1998 and we acquired it in 1998. Its medium is cut and pasted paper with dried foliage on paper support. It is a part of the Wallcoverings department.

This object was donated by Elizabeth Dow Ltd.. It is credited Gift of Elizabeth Dow Ltd..

Detailed botanical illustration of Odontoglossum grande spread across two pages horizontally. The orchids are set against a tan colored background. The perspective of the illustration is from a top view, exposing the inside of each bloomed orchid. The petals are a blotched pattern of mahogany and white. Some petals are mostly mahogany with a golden-yellow tip. A few wilting petals are a cool purple and white color. The inner pistils and stamen extend from the center of each orchid in bright yellow. Dark green stems and leaves emerge from where the page is binded at center. On the right side of the right page in a script font reads 'Odontoglossom grande.'

Plate, Odontoglossum Grande, Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of...
printed paper.
Smithsonian Libraries.
23.2018.9

Printed on grey toned paper, black and grey illustrations of fruit and nut trees cover the paper. Each illustration is labeled as a figure with a number notation for reference. Detailed depictions of leaves, walnuts, cacti, and various other botany are included.

Plate 71, Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art. /...
printed paper.
Smithsonian Libraries.
23.2018.4

This illustration has a framing rectangle of a realistic banana and its anatomical growth stages and parts numbered but unordered. A full illustration of a ripe, unpeeled banana has green on either ends and takes up most of the left side of the frame. To its right on the top of the frame, is a black and white and yellow illustration of one end of a banana with parts of a flower emerging from the top, and the written number 2 next to it. On the right of that is an illustration with a number 1, showing a misshapen banana with petals and flowers emerging from the top. Underneath that are two black and white illustrations, 3 and 4, of the flowers stylus and pistil (3) and the stylus open (4). At the bottom are illustrations number 5 and 7: 5 is small unripened bottom of banana, cut across the top, revealing a seed formation in the middle. On the right is 7: a color drawing of a ripened banana cut across the top in the same manner, showing a progressed seed formation in the center. To the left of the full banana illustration, is a black and white a black and white illustration numbered 8, showing roots and new growth. Outside of the rectangular frame, there is text at the top reads '54 bis,' and the text at the bottom reads 'BANANIER' in all caps, with a small signature on the bottom right of the framing rectangle.

Bananier, Plate 54, Flore Médicale, 1814
printed paper.
Smithsonian Libraries.
23.2018.3

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These two sculptures share the same base and flower type. The pink flower is fully bloomed with heart shaped leaves, and numerous, thin, white filament with yellow anthers coming from a green center. The five heart petals of the flower gradient from pink on the end to white, and have dark pink veins across the surface. The stem is green and boasts small ovular leaves with spiked edges. The anatomical model next to the flower is as if the stem and closed bud were cut down the middle to reveal the inside of the flower: shaped like a lightbulb, there is a fuzzy brown pit in the middle with thin white filament through the tapering part of the bud. From the top of the filaments are small rounded anthers, exposed outside of the closed bud.

Model, Rosa Canina
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.12

Its dimensions are

243.8 x 101.6 cm (96 x 40 in. )

Cite this object as

Sidewall, Botanical; Designed by Elizabeth Dow; Made by Elizabeth Dow Ltd.; USA; cut and pasted paper with dried foliage on paper support; 243.8 x 101.6 cm (96 x 40 in. ); Gift of Elizabeth Dow Ltd.; 1998-66-7

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2DFV4/
Accession Number 1998-66-7
Object ID 18669913