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Pommier d'acajou
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CA RBD 4-14
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18 October 1775 (Creation)
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1 illustration : pencil on paper with watercolour and gouache ; 33 x 42.8 cm
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(1717-1785)
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Illustration of Cashew tree (Anacardium occidentale); in French, Anacardier; in Haitian Creole, Ponm kajou. Place of creation: au Cap [Cap-Haïtien]. Specimen origin: Cap [Cap-Haïtien].
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Watermarks: Strasbourg lily (full).
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Inscription (transcribed from recto): No. 11. / 1.
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Inscription (from recto; translation): No. 11. / 1.
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Inscription (transcribed from verso): une Branche de pommier d’acajou, avec sa feuille, sa fleur et son fruit, et une pomme d’acajou coupée, Grand. Nat. fait au Cap le 18 8bre 1775. Rabié / No. 14. / une Branche de Pommier d’acajou, avec sa feuille, sa fleur et son fruit, grandeur naturelle 1775 une pomme d’acajou coupée. une pomme d’acajou avec son noyau, qui est la noix d’acajou. Le pommier d’acajou, n’est point L’acajou, bois dur dont on fait des meubles. La pulpe de la pomme d’acajou a un goût très fade. on fait griller La noix d’acajou. L’huile quelle rend est un violent caustique. une singularité de ce fruit, c’est que sa graine est en dehors du fruit.
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Inscription (from verso; translation): A branch of the cashew apple tree, with its leaf, its flower and its fruit, and a cut cashew apple, natural size, made at Cap-Haïtien 18 October 1775. Rabié / No. 14. / A branch of the cashew apple tree, with its leaf, its flower and its fruit, natural size 1775, a cashew apple, cut. A cashew apple with its pit, which is the cashew nut. The cashew tree is not the cashew, hard wood from which furniture is made. The pulp of the cashew apple has a very bland taste. The cashew nut is grilled. The oil it produces is violently caustic. A particularity of this fruit, is that its seed is outside the fruit.
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14
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11