Citation
"Plant and Insect Study: Gelseminum; Bombix or Bombyx Russula Butterfly (Unidentified Artist)(Previously attributed to Josef Abel) , 4.1965.7,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/311878.
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On the left is a short sprig of five-petaled yellow flowers and buds with small oblong leaves. The tallest middle sprig has a cone-shaped cluster of small light-purple flowers, its feathery tip leans left with small tapered green leaves along the stem. The third cut stem crisscrosses the middle one near the bottom, leans right, lowest one on the paper. It has tapered white jasmine flowers in a looser cluster and slender blade-like leaves. An open-winged orange, yellow, and white butterfly, floats away top right. Shadowing gives everything dimensionality. Manuscript of the Latin names in lower left.