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Aigrette
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CA RBD 2-38
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26 July 1775 (Creation)
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Physical description
1 illustration : pencil and ink on paper with watercolour ; 23.0 x 34.4 cm
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Name of creator
(1717-1785)
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Scope and content
Illustration of: Hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus); in French, Labre capitaine; in Haitian Creole, Kapitén. Place of creation: au Cap [Cap-Haïtien].
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General note
Inscription (transcribed from recto): No. 32. Aigrette / Rabié fecit 1775.
General note
Inscription (from recto; translation): No. 32. Aigrette / made by Rabié 1775.
General note
Inscription (transcribed from verso): no. 32. aigrette moitié de grand. nat: fait au Cap le 26 juillet 1775 Rabié Laigrette est un exellent poisson dont la chair est Blanche comme du lait, tendre et d'un gout exellent, on l'apelle aussy vivaneau. / no. 38. L'aigrette, ou vivaneau, moitié de grandeur naturelle.
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Inscription (from verso; translation): no. 32. "aigrette" half life size: done at Le Cap 26 July 1775 Rabié The aigrette is an excellent fish whose flesh is White as milk, tender, and of excellent taste, it is also called the "snapper". / no. 38. The aigrette, or snapper, half life size.
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Item number (page number)
38
Table number
38
De Rabié number
32