Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10605
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English Iris
Date
1907
Creator
Arthur Harry Church (1865 - 1937, British) , Botanist
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 310mm
width (painting): 210mm
height (frame): 380mm
width (frame): 278mm
width (painting): 210mm
height (frame): 380mm
width (frame): 278mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of the flower of the cultivated ‘English Iris’ Iris xiphiodes, with a section through the flower.
Inscribed below in pencil: ‘Iris xiphioides (x1 1/2) Large Garden Form. A.H.Church delt. July 7 1907.’
From the watercolour collection of Gordon Elliott Fogg, MS/911.
Arthur Harry Church was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1921.
Inscribed below in pencil: ‘Iris xiphioides (x1 1/2) Large Garden Form. A.H.Church delt. July 7 1907.’
From the watercolour collection of Gordon Elliott Fogg, MS/911.
Arthur Harry Church was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1921.
Object history
Bequeathed by Professor G.E. (Tony) Fogg FRS, received June 2005.
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