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Robins was the son of a landscape painter and gardener and specialized in painting flowers often crowded with insect life. He worked in Bath in the 1780s.
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Thomas Robins, Jun. (1745-1806)
A Botanical Study of red-fruited Passion Flowers, Virginia Tobacco Plant and Ixia with Swallowtail Butterflies
inscribed 'Painted from Nature by Thos Robins the Younger. Bath 1786' and mounted with another sheet extensively inscribed with the names of the flowers and butterflies in Latin and English and further inscribed '.No41 Vol2d'; pen and ink and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and gum arabic
13¾ x 9in. (345 x 230mm.)
A Botanical Study of red-fruited Passion Flowers, Virginia Tobacco Plant and Ixia with Swallowtail Butterflies
inscribed 'Painted from Nature by Thos Robins the Younger. Bath 1786' and mounted with another sheet extensively inscribed with the names of the flowers and butterflies in Latin and English and further inscribed '.No41 Vol2d'; pen and ink and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and gum arabic
13¾ x 9in. (345 x 230mm.)