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Pierre-Joseph REDOUTÉ
Flemish 1759–1840
Ficus rubeginosa
c. 1803
watercolour and gouache over pencil, red and gold pen
and ink on vellum
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge PD.122-1973.67
A colour engraving after this watercolour
was one of forty-six Australian plants
published for Josephine Bonaparte
(the future Empress Josephine) in Jardin de
la Malmaison (The garden at Malmaison),
1803–04.
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