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Graphic material
1 illustration : pencil on paper with watercolour and gouache ; 22.2 x 32.4 cm
Illustration of: Rock beauty (Holacanthus tricolor); in French, Demoiselle beauté. Place of creation: au Cap [Cap-Haïtien]. Specimen origin: Caribbean.
Trimmed.
Inscription (transcribed from recto): No 35 Demoiselle ditte la Jacobine.
Inscription (from recto; translation): No. 35 Demoiselle called the Jacobine.
Inscription (transcribed from verso): no. / 35. / La jacobine demoiselle grand nat. au Cap le 3 Xbre 1780 Rabié / no. 32, La jacobine, espece de demoiselle, de grandeur naturelle.
Inscription (from verso; translation): no. / 35. / The Jacobine demoiselle life size at Le Cap 3 December 1780 Rabié / no. 32, The Jacobine, a type of Demoiselle, life size.