A watercolour showing a Crinum pendulum. Several red and yellow flowers are shown hanging down from a central stem. An ink and wash border is shown around the edge of the sheet.
Inscribed lower right: Frinum [sic] Pendulum July 5. 1784

Queen Charlotte and her daughters had a serious interest in botany. This watercolour of Crinum pendulum is one of several plant studies from a volume of drawings by Charlotte, Princess Royal. While some of these drawings have clearly been copied from the illustrations of important botanical books, such as John Miller's Illustrations of the Sexual System of Linnaeus, others appear to be studies from actual plants. This watercolour was presumably drawn from life as it was executed shortly after the plant was first introduced to England and no illustration of it had been published at the time. For other items in this volume see Princess Royal Volume.