Elizabeth MacFarlane original Orchid Watercolor, Dendrobium Deronianum / India

MACFARLANE, Elizabeth (d. 1805).
Dendrobium Deronianum / India.
From an album titled “Sertum orchidaceum”
27 1/2" x 18 3/4" sheet.

PROVENANCE: Samuel Williams Fuller (c.1777-1857) and Joseph Carr Fuller (c.1782-1863), Gallery of Fine Arts, gallery ticket on front paste-down; Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven.

Unsigned, but a pencil note on the flyleaf reads, “These drawings are thought to be done by the wife of MacFarlane, the celebrated orchid painter” (James Laird MacFarlane).