Red Passion Flower
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Description:
Watercolor on paper illustrating the stem, leaves, buds, tendrils and flower of the red passion (Passiflora vitifolia) plant painted during Taylor's first expedition with William Beebe in British Guiana (Guyana). Three different insect species are depicted.
Gift of the artist, 1946.
- Title: Red Passion Flower
- Creator: Taylor, Anna Heyward, 1879-1956
- Date: c. 1916
- Culture: American
- School: Academic
- Dimensions: H-14 W-10 inches
- Makers Mark: lower right in graphite: "Passiflora."
- Collection: Works on Paper Collection
- Object Name: Anna Heyward Taylor Artwork
- Other Name: Work on Paper
- Object Id: AZ 1218
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