Pièce HCO/1/4/1/3 - Myosotis (Forget-me-not), Verbena

Extent: 1 folder

Album: (41.5 x 27.3 cm), brown card cover with metal hinges, entitled Myosotis (Forget-me-not), Verbena, photo mount style pages with a mix of watercolour paintings, black and white and hand-coloured photographs on paper and card. Pg.1: 4 x Watercolours. 1. - 2. Two paintings on squares of white card glued together of a single Myosotis flower, one in pink with thin blue stripes and one vice versa, both dated May 1925. 3. Painting of a Myosotis sprig with three flowers in shades of blue and pink, dated April 1925. 4. Painting of a single Myosotis flower, white with blue speckles, dated April 1925. Pg.2: 2 x Photographs: 1. Hand-coloured photograph of Myosotis in a pot, flowers coloured pake pink. No date. 2. B & w photograph (as/similar to above). Pg.3: 1 x Postcard and 1 x Photograph: 1. Postcard showing a photograph of a white Myosotis with 'Pride of Zurich, May: [19]18 written in white. 2. B & w photograph of a single Myosotis flower, no date. Pg.4: 1 x Painting and 1 x Photograph: 1. Painting of two single Verbena flowers in white and violet, inscribed 'Verbena Malconetti x 3' (left) and 'ordinary' (right), dated Sep 1926. 2. B & w photograph of three Verbena flowers, probably used for painting above, back inscribed '3 times natural size, Verbena Malconetti, Sep 1926'. Loose Items: 1. Two paintings on black card glued together on white paper, depicting sprigs of Myosotis in white with blue stripes (left) and blue with white stripes (right), inscribed around edge 'enlarge about 3 times' (top left), 'blue really more as shown in reverse' (top right), ''May - 18 Pride of Zurich (reversed)' (bottom left), 'Pride of Zurich, May 14th 18' (bottom right). Back inscribed 'duet[?] show different colour', 'Pride of Zurich, May 18'. 2. Coloured drawings of Myosotis, two sprigs and two rows of five single flowers in various percentages of blue and pink. Back inscribed 'Enlarge from forget-me-not'. No date. 3. Black ink drawing as above but with three rows of three single flowers.