design for a bracket panel for a Japanese pavillion

Thomas Jeckyll, artist

1827–1881

design for a bracket panel for a Japanese pavillion, 1876

Where object was made: England, United Kingdom

Material/technique: wash; paper; pencil

Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 55.8 x 42.4 cm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 21 15/16 x 16 11/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 32 x 24 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund

Accession number: 1977.0015

Not on display

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Big Botany: Conversations with the Plant World

This drawing of a sunflower motif was made for the Japanese Pavilion in the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. The pavilion was ground zero for the introduction of the perennial Kudzu vine (Japanese arrowroot) into the United States, where it has since been labeled an invasive species. Jeckyll has depicted a simplified rendering of one of the two spiraling forms that is indicative of the fundamental mathematics of the growth of florets that make up a sunflower seed head.