Bottle Gentian (Gentiana saponaria), watercolor study

A watercolor botanical study of a flowering stem with broad green lance-shaped leaves and clustered blue-violet flowers that have not fully opened, shown in a cluster at the top and buds along the stem. The plant is painted in soft, even washes against a pale cream paper ground, with a signature and date in the lower right corner.

Artist

Mary Vaux Walcott

Date

1905

Medium

watercolor on paper

Source

Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Size

2155 × 3000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum