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.

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Model, Rosa Canina

This is a model. It is dated 1875–1898. Its medium is wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers, gelatin, glass and bone glue beads, cloth, metallic thread, horsehair, hemp, silk threads, paint, and shellac varnish. It is a part of the department.

Rosa canina, also known as dog rose, is a thorny climbing plant native to Europe, North Africa and western Asia, characterized by pink or white flowers. Traditionally, syrups were made using the rose hips due to their high concentration in vitamin C. The hairs inside the hips, known to cause irritation, have been an ingredient in itching powder.

It is credited Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

Sidewall, Botanical
cut and pasted paper with dried foliage on paper support.
Gift of Elizabeth Dow Ltd..
1998-66-7

Textile, Garden Path
silk.
Gift of Marian Clayden.
1991-87-1

Sidewall, The Pink and Rose
block-printed on paper.
Gift of Clifford Murvine, Reed Wallpaper Company.
1977-28-16-a/k

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 44.8 × 38.1 × 34.3 cm (17 5/8 in. × 15 in. × 13 1/2 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Botanical Lessons.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/4wUqxP/
Accession Number 22.2018.12
Object ID 2318793589