Item HCO/1/1/3/1 - Tropaeolum (Nasturtium) Flower and Petal Paintings and Hand-Coloured Photographs

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3 Paintings: 1. Individual Tropaeolum flowers in 2 rows of 5 painted flower heads (watercolour), shades of red, orange and yellow, on 3 pieces of white card mounted on cream card (37 x17 cm); signed 'HCO', Aug 18th [19]33. Back inscribed 'Paint on Photo' but looks like a painting. Inscribed on mount referring to colours; 'orange-scarlet', 'chocolate', 'primrose', 'salmon', 'pink (magenta)' and 'yellow'. NB: JIC library catalogue (ref 4B) refers to 4 strips, unclear if this is referring to same item. 2. Tropaeolum petal paintings: on 2 pieces of white card: a) 21.2 x 16.4, petals in shades or cream, yellow, orange, pink and red/purple in 3 rows of 6, 7 and 1: inscribed 'plum? deep red spot', 'scarlet on plum?', 'yellow', 'plum? pink spot', 'deep red', 'pink', 'orange scarlet','deep red on yellow', 'chocolate', and number refs. b)13.6 x 7.7, petals in 2 rows of 4 and 2 petals in various shades of pink/red, inscribed 'bright pink on dark leaves', pink reddish', 'salmon, ground too yellow', 'carmine, bright purple', 'scarlet t[....] stigma?' , signed 'HCO' Aug 18th [19]33. Inscribed 'fine brush'' on back. Photographs: 2 hand-coloured and 4 black and white. 1. Hand-coloured on black ground, white border, 21.8 x16.4 cm, depicting 3 flower heads (stems in small glass tubes) in yellow (x2) and pink (x1) labeled 25/30, 4/30 and 3/30. Signed on back 'HCO' Sep 1930. 2. Hand-coloured on black ground, 21.8 x 8.1 cm, depicting 4 flower heads (stems in small glass tubes) in alternate yellow and orange, labelled '/30, 2/30, 31 and 21/30. Signed on back 'HCO' Sep 1930. 3. As above (2.) in black and white on black ground x 2. 1 signed on back 'HCO' Sep 1930. 4. 2 x near identical black and white photographs depicting 3 flower heads (stems in small glass tubes) labeled 25/30, 4/30, 3/30. 1 signed on back 'HCO' Sep 1930. These are b & w versions of the hand-coloured photograph (1.) above.