Red Hibiscus
1800
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1800
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Red Hibiscus is a 1800 paint by Unknown, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The painting shows a bright red hibiscus flower against a simple background. This flower was a common sight in southern China, but it was new and exciting to people in Britain during the 1800s. They loved learning about and collecting unusual plants from other countries. If you like this style of painting, you can learn more about the technique used to create it at the museum where it's housed, the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A rectangular watercolour painting from around 1800 depicts a red hibiscus, or 'fu sang,' with two flower heads on a brown branch bearing dark green ovate leaves with visible veins. The stems curve in opposite directions, and the flowers feature orange-red petals. The work is mounted on brown-tinted paper.
Read the full account in the museum source.
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