• Title
  [Butterflies with passionfruit flower], 1854 / Helena Scott
• Creator
  Helena Forde, 1832-1910
• Call number
  DL Pd 779
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1854
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  440332
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour drawing - 25.3 x 20.3 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The sheet appears to have formerly been hinged into an album.
  
  The date is supported by the fact that between 1850 and 1864 Helena and Harriet Scott were working on the plates for their father's publication, A.W. Scott ""Australian lepidoptera and their transformations"". London, Jan Van Voorst; Sydney, F.W. White ..., 1864-1898.
  The plants in this drawing were identified by Geoff Holloway at the Australian Museum in 1989 as being Cressida cressida [Big Greasy] at left, Papilio demonleus sthenelus [Checkered swallowtail] at right, and passiflora [passionfruit flower] in the centre.
  
  This item has been preserved and digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002
  Digital order no:a128970
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed in black ink at lower left, ""Helena Scott delt.""
  Inscribed, ""1854 (63 years ago)"" in pencil along lower edge at right of signature.
  A blind stamp in upper left corner, ""Tu... lls / [crest] / Superfine / London Board""
• Topic
  botany
  butterflies
  flowers
  passionfruit
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The work of art - Australian women writers and artists - State Library of New South Wales (14 August, 1995 - 11 February, 1996)
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (April 2005 - June 2006)

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