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Graphic material
1 illustration : pencil and ink on paper with watercolour ; 26.8 x 19.1 cm (illustration)
Illustration of Rustic Sphinx (Manduca rustica). Place of creation: Haiti.
Inscription (transcribed from recto): [A] chenille du papillon argenté ocbre; [A] crisalide du papillon argent; argenté; [B] chenille le 22 janv? [in pencil]; [C] La vache; [D] le 18 janvier [in pencil]; [E] chenille de figuier de france qui a fait son Cocon le 19 janvier 1776. éclos le 2 fevrier. 14 jours apres./ la même que celle de la page 16.
Inscription (from recto; translation): [A] silver butterfly caterpillar October; [A] chrysalis of the silver butterfly; silver; [B] caterpillar 22 January? [in pencil]; [C] The cow; [D] 18 January [in pencil]; [E] Fig [Ficus carica] caterpillar that made its Cocoon 19 January 1776. hatched 2 February 14 days later / the same as that on page 16.