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McLennan Library Building3459 rue McTavish
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Graphic material
1 illustration : pencil on paper with watercolour and gouache ; 32.9 x 41.8 cm
Illustration of Horse-eye bean/Ox-eye bean (Mucuna sloanei); in French, Oeil de boeuf; in Haitian Creole, Je Bourik. Place of creation: Limonade. Specimen origin: Limonade?
Watermarks: Tuin, Garden of Holland (full).
Inscription (transcribed from recto): No. 48.
Inscription (from recto; translation): No. 48.
Inscription (transcribed from verso): une branche de Cacone, avec sa feüi[lle] sa fleur et son fruit et une cosse ouverte. Grand[eur]. nat. Limonad. 1769 / no. 47 / une Branche de cacone, avec sa feuille, sa fleur et son fruit, grandeur naturelle 1769. une cosse ouverte Le fruit ne se mange point.
Inscription (from verso; translation): A branch of Cacone [Mucuna], with its leaf its flower and its fruit and an open pod. Natural size. Limonad[?]. 1769. / no. 47 / A branch of cacone, with its leaf, its flower and its fruit, natural size, 1769. A pod, open. The fruit is inedible.