Watercolour painting of a red flowered Hibiscus with a spider to the lower right corner. LC: 'Regne Vegetal / Hibiscus chinensis simple…' Mr P Ledoulx peintre trouvant un defaut a cette feuille en copiant cette fleur le couvret d’un morceau de papier et y a peint celle arrignee si artis[t?]ement, qu’une vielle servante sourde venant arranger la chambre, pris un bout d’allumette pour la chasser du papier, et se voyant trompee, montre son poing au peintre pour signal qu’il l’avail trompe.'. Plant Kingdom, Hibiscus chinensis (H. rosa-sinensis) from the extensive garden in the superb parkland and castle belonging to Emmanuel Lichterveld.' The manuscript text translates as: 'Monsieur P Ledoulx, painter, finding a fault in this sheet while copying this flower, covered it with a scrap of paper and painted this spider onto it so realistically that when an old, deaf servant came in to tidy the room, she took the end of a matchstick and tried to chase the spider from the paper; seeing that she had been fooled, she raised her fist to the painter to show him she realised he had fooled her.' Hibiscus rosa-sinensis is the current botanical name, Hibiscus chinensis is a synonym
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watercolour painting (technique). watercolour (paint). laid paper