# Study Sheet of Sunflowers, Snowberry, and Blackthorn

- By: Theo Nieuwenhuis (Noord-Scharwoude, 1866–1951)
- Date: c. 1895
- Medium: paper, ink
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 618 mm x width 480 mm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-1969-186--f2a9fbc234430b6b89bb70f4bc25a436)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/eqKjV/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Nieuwenhuis’ studies formed the ‘archive’ that he mined when drawing his illustrations on a litho stone. He worked selectively. Of the motifs in this drawing he ultimately used only the branch of blackthorn and one of the branches of snowberry (in two different lithographs). On this sheet he also noted the characteristics of small parts, such as blooms and seeds.