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Graphic material
1 illustration : pencil on paper with watercolour and gouache ; 32.4 x 42.6 cm
Illustration of Jocote (Spondias purpurea); in French, Prunier d'Espagne; in Haitian Creole, Siwèl. Place of creation: au Cap [Cap-Haïtien]. Specimen origin: Cap [Cap-Haïtien].
Watermarks: D&C Blauw (full).
Inscription (transcribed from recto): No. 9.
Inscription (from verso; translation): No. 9.
Inscription (transcribed from verso): une Branche de Cirgoüellier, avec sa feüille et son fruit, Grand: nat:. Fait au Cap le 8 8bre 1775. Rabié / no. 12 / une Branche de Cirgoüelier, avec sa feuille, et son fruit, grandeur naturelle, 1775. ce fruit dont on mange la pulpe, quand il est mur, est peu estimé.
Inscription (from verso; translation): no. 9. A branch of the jocote plant, with its leaf and its fruit, natural size. Made at Cap-Haïtien 8 October 1775. Rabié / no. 12 / A branch of the jocote plant, with its leaf, and its fruit, natural size, 1775. This fruit, of which the pulp is eaten, when it is ripe, is held in low regard.