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- Title:
The Blue Passion Flower, for Robert John Thornton’s Temple of Flora (London, 1799–1812)
- Former Title(s):
Blue Passion Flower, for the "Temple of Flora" by Robert Thornton
The blue Passion Flower, for Dr. Thornton's new Illustration of the Sexual System by Linnaeus [1800, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- 1800
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 17 7/8 x 14 3/4 inches (45.4 x 37.5 cm), Frame: 23 1/2 × 20 1/2 inches (59.7 × 52.1 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.516
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.516FR
- Subject Terms:
- blue | botanical subject | botany | column (architectural element) | flora | flowers (plants) | fruit | green (color) | leaves | orange | passion flower | science | stems | still life | temple | vines | white (color)
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1000
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The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 182-183, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Joanna Marschner, Enlightened Princesses : Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn, 2017, p. 509, fig. 29.46, NX543 +.E55 2017 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]