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Graphic material
1 illustration : pencil and ink on paper with watercolour ; 22.2 x 32.0 cm
Illustration of: Silver mojarra (Eucinostomus gula[?]); in French, Mord-pointu. Place of creation: au Cap [Cap-Haïtien]. Specimen origin: Caribbean.
Trimmed.
Inscription (transcribed from recto): no. 13 Haut Dôs / 2/3.
Inscription (from recto; translation): no. 13 High-Back / 2/3.
Inscription (transcribed from verso): au Cap le 16 7bre 1773. Rabié / no. / 13 / Le haut dos, argenté de 14 pouces de long, au Cap le 16 7bre 1773. Rabié / no. 13. Le haut-dos, argenté, de 14 pouces de long.
Inscription (from verso; translation): at Le Cap 16 September 1773. Rabié / no. 8. / 13 / The silver "High-back" 14 inches long, at Le Cap 16 September 1773. Rabié / no. 13. The silver High-back, 14 inches long.