'Sedum montanum...' mb-code 2502683 Figure 3 Dendronotus arborescens

Figure 3 Dendronotus arborescens

He was heir to the Barnato Diamond Mining Co

A small fire burns in the foreground

with a coach and figures in Guildhall Yard

'Sedum montanum...' mb-code 2502683 Figure 3 Dendronotus arborescensBotanical study, Sedum montanum [Sempervivum arachnoideum] in flower with foreground detail. Commonly called the mountain woolly houseleek or cobweb houseleek [described in Philip Millers, Gardeners' dictionary, 1735], the artist shows the fine inter leaf filaments producing the cobweb effect, from which the plant takes its name. Inscribed in ink: 'SEDUM montanum tomento sum C. B. P. Cobweb Houseleek.' Signed lower right; 'G. D. Ehret pinxit'.