• Title
  Item 27: Gigantia Lily / [watercolour drawing attributed to John William Lewin]
• Creator
  J. W. (John William) Lewin, 1770-1819
• Call number
  DG SV*/Bot/2
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1806
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  404931
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour drawing - 2 ink studies - 36 x 25 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The work is unsigned and undated.
  On each side of the watercolour is an ink study of flower parts, with pencil notations, in a similar hand to that of the title, that idenitfies parts. In between these notes is "Yes J[W?]" in a different hand.
  Dated from comparison with another drawing of a giant lily by J.W. Lewin, "Gymea, or Giant Lily, 1806" located in the Dixson Galleries collection at DG 258.
  Removed from an album that belonged to Miss Olive (Maria) Laura King. For the location of other items from this album, please refere to PXn 258
  It is probable that this drawing belongs to the numbered sequence of J.W. Lewin's - "Botanical sketches of Australian plants, 1803-1808?" (located at SAFE/PXC 304), of which No. 177 has not been located.
  Digital order no:a128177
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled in ink at lower right of image.
  "177." in ink at top right hand corner.
• Topic
  botanical illustrations
  lilies
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Lewin: Wild Art - State Library of New South Wales (5 March - 28 October, 2012)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1499302

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