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Graphic material
1 illustration : pencil on paper with watercolour and gouache ; 32.1 x 43.8 cm
Illustration of Calabash (Lagenaria siceraria); in French, Calebasse; in Haitian Creole, Kalbas kouran. Place of creation: au Cap [Cap-Haïtien]. Specimen origin: Cap [Cap-Haïtien].
Inscription (transcribed from recto): no. 62.
Inscription (from recto; translation): no. 62.
Inscription (transcribed from verso): No. 62. petite courge ou Callebasse grand. nat. au Cap le 5. may 1784 Rabié / no. 62. / une branche de la liane qui porte la petite calebasse, avec sa feuille, sa fleur et son fruit, grandeur naturelle 1784.
Inscription (from verso; translation): No. 62. Small gourd or Calabash, natural size. At Cap-Haïtien, 5 May 1784 Rabié / no. 62. / A piece of the vine which holds the small calabash, with its leaf, its flower, and its fruit, natural size 1784.