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Cotonnier
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CA RBD 4-3
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1767 (Creation)
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1 illustration : pencil and ink on paper with watercolour and gouache ; 32.6 x 42 cm
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(1717-1785)
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Illustration of Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum); in French, Coton mexicain; in Haitian Creole, Koton. Place of creation: au Cap. Specimen origin: Cap [Cap-Haïtien].
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Watermarks: Strasbourg lily (full).
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Inscription (transcribed from recto): No. 17 Cotonnier / Cotonnier / Rabié fecit, au Cap. 1767.
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Inscription (from recto; translation): No. 17 Coton plant / Coton plant / Made by Rabié at Cap-Haïtien. 1767.
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Inscription (transcribed from verso): no. 17. une branche de Cotonier avec sa feuille, sa fleur et son fruit ou cotton, Grand[eur] Naturelle / no. 3 / une Branche de cotonnier avec sa feuille, sa fleur et son fruit, Le coton, de grandeur naturelle. La gousse renferme plusieurs graines noires, de la grosseur d’un pois, enveloppées dans le coton. pour les en séparer, on les fait passer le coton entre deux baguettes placées horizontalement en tournant l’une l’une sur l’autre. Le coton ainsi dégagé de la graine se met en balles. La graine sert à nourrir les moutons. Le cotonnier se reseme tous les ans; à St. domingue La culture en étoit abandonnée pour celle de la canne à sucre, parcequ’elle est très chanceuse, souvent, en une nuit toutes les feuilles des cotonniers se trouvoient devorées par les chenilles et L’arbrisseau périssoit.
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Inscription (from verso; translation): A branch of the cotton plant with its leaf, its flower, and its fruit or cotton, natural size / no. 3 / A branch of the cotton plant with its leaf, its flower, and its fruit, cotton, natural size. The pod contains several black seeds, the size of a pea, wrapped in cotton. To separate them from it, the cotton is passed between two rods placed horizontally, by turning one against the other. The cotton thus separated from the seed forms balls. The seed is used to feed sheep. The cotton plant sows itself every year; in St. Domingue cotton cultivation was abandoned and replaced by that of the sugarcane, because it is very favourable, often, in one night, all the leaves of the cotton plants were devoured by caterpillars and the shrubs died.
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3
De Rabié number
17