Amanita caesarea

Object/Artifact

Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

Amanita caesarea

Entry/Object ID

MP.2005.127

Description

Watercolor drawing on paper of a single fungus in shades of red-orange, yellow, and cream, accompanied by column of text, in pencil, to right of page: specimen measures 7 inches in height and 4 inches across the flattened hemispherical cap; knobbed cap is red-orange in center, becoming yellow at the margin; margin is radially lined; rosy pendant ring drapes like a collar down the golden-brown stalk; long tapering stalk teminates in sac-like cup at the foot; taxonomy to right is as follows: "1. Pileus bell shaped convex to expanded / some specimens umbonate, striate-on the / margin, large-darker in the center / 2. Lamellae bright yellow, free, heterophyllous / close / 3. Spores white / 4. Stipe long tapering above, hollow / 5. Volva large sac-like a collar-orange red like / center of pileus / Growing in very damp soil under rhodo / dendrons in damp woods-Gregarious- / Buck HIll Falls Aug 1919- / Pa / Many specimens larger than one figured"; beneath the two titles listed above.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Violetta White Delafield

Attribution

Artist

Date made

Aug 1919

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Transcription

See description

Other Names

Name Type

Other Title

Other Name

Venenarius Caesareus

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

8-7/8 in

Width

11-1/2 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 8 7/8 x 11 1/2 in. (22.5 x 29.2 cm)

Material

Paper (wove), Pencil, Watercolor

Condition

Notes

Remarks: Paper discolored at left and right lower corners; soiling of paper at edges; some smudging of text (#s 1. and 2.); lower edge is somewhat ragged and right lower corner has tiny piece missing; tiny tear along left edge.

General Notes

Note Type

StorageNote

Note

Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Union Church, Storage, Shelf 27A

Note Type

Department

Note

Curatorial