Watercolour painting of two stems of Brugmansia arborea, landscape orientation, with a black ink lined border. LC: 'Datura arborea flore albo arbuste por la serre fait ouverture a Iseghem a 1812. / L'anee suivante Monsieur Bertram avait 68 fleurs ouvertes et mi-ouvertes en meme tems sue un seul de ces arbris /eaure l'odeur de la fleur est un parfum delicieure'. Datura arborea white flowers, opened in the greenhouse in Iseghem (Izegem) in 1812. The following year Mr. Bertram had 68 completely open and half open flowers at the same time on one of these trees. The smell of the flower has a delicious fragrance'. Datura arborea is a synonym, the current botanical name is Brugmansia arborea. Iseghem is an historic spelling of Izegem. the English vernacular name is Angel's trumpet
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watercolour painting (technique). watercolour (paint). laid paper