John Nash:
Study of Ruhmania (Chinese Foxgloves)
Framed (ref: 7409)
Inscribed
Pencil, pen and ink, crayon and watercolour
14 5/8 x 9 3/4 in. (37.2 x 24.8 cm)
Tags: John Nash crayon ink pen and ink pencil watercolour flowers
Provenance: Acquired directly from The Artist's Estate
John Nash was a keen plantsman. a passion he shared which Charles Mahoney, Edward Bawden, Geoffrey Rhoades, and Evelyn Dunbar. This group regularly swapped cuttings with each other and cultivated their favoured plants in their gardens and recorded them in paintings and drawings. Illustrations were produced for books - Mahoney and Dunbar had published Gardeners' Choice in 1937. English Garden Flowers, for which this is likely to be a study, illustrated by Nash, was published by Duckworth, London, in 1948.
