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Lot 9AR

Emma Tennant
(British, born 1943)
Magnolia X Highdownensis

16 July 2025, 12:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Emma Tennant (British, born 1943)

Magnolia X Highdownensis
signed with initials, titled, dated and inscribed 'Magnolia highdownesis/Plas Newydd May 1990/E.T.' (lower left)
watercolour and pen and ink on paper
23.5 x 48cm (9 1/4 x 18 7/8in).

Footnotes

Provenance
With The National Trust's Prior Park Appeal, where acquired by the present owner, October 1993
Private Collection, U.K.

Exhibited
The National Trust's Prior Park Appeal, Portraits of Plants by Emma Tennant, October 1993, no. 12

Please note that the present lot is offered together with the catalogue of the October 1993 Portraits of Plants exhibition.

'Sir Frederick Stern introduced this beautiful small tree via his famous garden in Sussex, from which it takes its name. Most people agree with Graham Thomas that it is a hybrid between M.sinensis and M.wilsonii, though some authorities list it as a form of the latter. I painted it at Plas Newydd on Anglesey.' (The National Trust's Prior Park Appeal, Portraits of Plants by Emma Tennant, October 1993, p. ii)

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