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Graphic material
1 illustration : pencil and ink on paper with watercolour and gouache ; 32.4 x 41.8 cm
Illustration of Pineapple (Ananas comosus); in French, Ananas; in Haitian Creole, Zannanna/Anana.
Watermarks: "IV" countermark.
Inscription (transcribed from recto): No. 4 / Annana / Rabié fecit 1767.
Inscription (from recto; translation): No. 4 / Pineapple / Made by Rabié 1767.
Inscription (transcribed from verso): un annana avec partie de sa tige, de ses feuille et sa couronne et un annana coupé. Grand[eur] naturelle quoy quil y en ait de presque une fois plus gros. / no. 51 / un ananas, avec partie de sa tige de ses feuilles, et sa couronne, grandeur naturelle, quoiquil y en ait d’une fois plus longs. quand le fruit est bien mur, sa couleur est plus jaune un ananas coupé. voir Le no. 52. tout le monde connoit L’ananas.
Inscription (from verso; translation): A pineapple with part of its stem, its leaves and its crown, and a cut pineapple. Natural size, although there are some almost one time bigger. / no. 51 / A pineapple, with part of its stem and its leaves, and its crown, natural size, although there are some one time longer. When the fruit is very ripe, its colour is more yellow; a pineapple, cut. See no. 52. Everyone knows the pineapple.