Name/Title
Amanita frostianaEntry/Object ID
MP.2005.114Description
Watercolor drawing on paper of three fungi in shades of marigold yellow, pale yellow, and off white, accompanied by column of text, in pencil, on right of page: two large specimens measuring 5 inches in height flank a smaller specimen, measuring 3 1/2 inches in height; the two large mushrooms have wide, deep yellow caps dotted with floccose warts; their closely spaced gills are visible; the pale yellow stalks are curved and display a yellow "skirt" or ring; stalks terminate in an ellipsoid basal bulb; center specimen has a deep yellow domed cap, and no visible gills or ring; strokes of olive green delineate earth; to the right, at top of page, the following text, " July 22-1900 Litchfield Conn. / Growing in rich soil under Hemlocks- / 1. Taste, mealy slightly nutty / 2. Surface of Pileus, smooth slightly viscid / 3. Lamellae- creamy white, Heterophyllous / close-close-free- / 4. Spores white / 5. Stipe, Fleshy- hollow- bulbous- / 6. Veil, yellow, forming skirt like annulus-/ volva- remaining in fragments / round- bulb and also in a few fragments / on top of pileus / Amanita Frostiana / Venenarius Frostianus".Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Violetta White DelafieldAttribution
ArtistDate made
Jul 22, 1900Inscription/Signature/Marks
Type
InscriptionTranscription
See descriptionOther Names
Name Type
Other TitleOther Name
Venenarius frostianusDimensions
Dimension Description
OverallHeight
8-7/8 inWidth
11-1/2 inDimension Notes
Display Dimensions: 8 7/8 x 11 1/2 in. (22.5 x 29.2 cm)Material
Paper (laid), Pencil, WatercolorCondition
Notes
Remarks: Paper discolored; soiling along edges; creased at upper left corner and along rignt edge; upper edge somewhat ragged; small tear along right edge; stray pencil dots noted.General Notes
Note Type
StorageNoteNote
Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Union Church, Storage, Shelf 27ANote Type
DepartmentNote
Curatorial