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Raquette
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CA RBD 4-19
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22 October 1775 (Creation)
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1 illustration : pencil on paper with watercolour and gouache ; 33 x 42.7 cm
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(1717-1785)
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Illustration of Prickly pear cactus (Opuntia tuna); in French, Figue de Barbarie/Raquette; in Haitian Creole, Rakèt?. 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. 21.
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Inscription (from recto; translation): No. 21.
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Inscription (transcribed from verso): une patte / Branche / de Raquette avec sa fleur / feuille / et son fruit, et une pomme de Raquette Coupée. Grand. nat: fait au Cap le 22 8bre 1775. Rabié / no. 19 / une Patte de raquette, avec sa fleur et son fruit, grandeur naturelle 1775. une Pomme de raquette coupée. La chair de la pomme raquette est d’un goût fade; elle donne un jus d’un pourpre éclatant, couleur qu’on n’est point encore parvenu à fixer; c’est sur une espece particuliere de raquette, que se trouve la cochenille, qui est un insecte ressemblant parfaitement à une punaise, que l’on fait sécher, et qu’on réduit en poudre, ce qui produit La cochenille du commerce. quelques années avant la révolution de 1789; on avoit introduit à st domingue La raquette où vient la cochenille, tirée du méxique; elle y réussissoit très bien.
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Inscription (from verso; translation): A branch of prickly pear with its flower / its leaf / and its fruit, and a cut prickly pear fruit. Natural size, made at Cap-Haïtien 22 October 1775. Rabié / no. 19 / A branch of prickly pear, with is flower and its fruit, natural size 1775. A prickly pear fruit, cut. The flesh of the prickly pear fruit has a bland flavour; it produces a bright purple juice, a colour which we have not yet been able to capture; it is on a particular species of prickly pear that the cochineal is found, which is an insect that perfectly resembles a thumbtack, which is dried, then ground to powder, which produces commercial cochineal. A few years before the revolution of 1789, the prickly pear on which the cochineal is found was introduced to St. Domingue, brought from Mexico; it was very successful.
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19
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21