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Graphic material
1 illustration : pencil on paper with watercolour and gouache ; 32.7 x 43.5 cm
Illustration of Passion fruit (Passiflora edulis); in French, Grenadille; in Haitian Creole, Grenadaya. Place of creation: au Cap [Cap-Haïtien]. Specimen origin: Cap [Cap-Haïtien].
Inscription (transcribed from recto): No. 35.
Inscription (from recto; translation): No. 35.
Inscription (transcribed from verso): Caconnes ou tu te moques / un morceau de Lianne [word crossed out] de Caconne, avec sa feuile sa fleur et son fruit. Grand nat: fait au Cap en 1770. / no. 34 / un morceau de Liane de caconne ou tu te mocques avec sa feuille, sa fleur et son fruit 1770. une Caconne coupée. La graine est entouree d’une liqueur visqueuse, un peu fade.
Inscription (from verso; translation): Caconnes ou tu te moques ["you mock"] / A piece of the Caconne vine, with its leaf, its flowers, and its fruit. Natural size; done at Cap-Haïtien in 1770. / no. 34 / A piece of the Caconne vine or tu te mocques with its leaf, its flower and its fruit 1770. A caconne, cut. The seed is surrounded by a viscous, rather bland, liquid.