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A rare Bow Botanical plate, of indented octagonal shape, beautifully naturalistically painted with an English slipper orchid or cypripidium having slightly divergent petals and painted in delicate tones of purple and blue with dark puce shading, its beautifully windblown leaves in differing tones of green, surrounded by a caterpillar, a may fly and a butterfly in flight together with scattered sprigs of European flowers, brown line rim.
Circa 1756.
Diameter: 8 ¾ ins. (21.5cms.)
No Marks

This plate exhibits close similarities in the treatment of the insects as the work of James Welsh particularly when considering the insects on the inkwell signed by him and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Look closely at the tail of the may fly and the shading of the caterpillar.

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