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Chenilles diverses et chrisalides
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CA RBD 3-33
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1 February 1776 (Creation)
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1 illustration : pencil and ink on paper with watercolour ; 27.2 x 19.3 cm (illustration)
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(1717-1785)
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Illustration of Frangipani Sphinx (Pseudosphinx tetrio); in French, Sphinx du frangipanier. Place of creation: Haiti.
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Watermarks: Horn or Strasbourg lily (partial).
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Inscription (transcribed from recto): St Domingue 1776 [A] chenille [in pencil] le 23 janv; B. chenille du frangipanier /la même que celle de la page 17/ [B] chrisalide de la chenille du frangipanier; [C] autre chenille du frangipanier; [D] chenille du gouyavier [Psidium guajava], qui consommé sa chrisalide le premier fevrier 1776; cette chenille fait une toile et s'y suspend comme dans un hamac; chenille du gouyavier, elle fait une toile et s'y suspend comme dans un hamac; [E] chrisalide de lachenille du gouyavier faite le premier fevrier 1776 éclos le 15; [...] a fait un papillon noir tacheté de blanc; papillon de la chenille du figuier de France [Ficus carica] éclos [?] le 2 fevr 1776; le fuirire ou le meunier Léveque/ Ce papillion ets le même de la page 16/ [F] Lagare; Lagare.St Domingue 1776 .
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Inscription (from recto; translation): [A] caterpillar [in pencil] 23 January; [B] frangipani caterpillar /the same as on page 17/ [B] chrysalis of the frangipani caterpillar; [C] other frangipani caterpillar; [D] guava [Psidium guajava] caterpillar, that ate [?] its chrysalis 1 January 1776; this caterpillar spins a web and hangs there as in a hammock; guava caterpillar, it spins a web and hangs as if in a hammock; [E] chrysalis of the gauva caterpillar, guava caterpillar chryslais made 1 February 1776 hatched the 15th [...] created a butterfly black spotted with white; butterfly of the fig [Ficus carica] caterpillar hatched 2 February 1776; the fuirire [?] or le meunier Bishop/ This butterfly is the same as on page 16/ [F] Lagare; Lagare.
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33
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48