Picture Details
Mango branch
Partner:
Wellcome Library, LondonImage reference:
V0042598Origin:
IndiaArtist / Date:
Henrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakestein, 1683Size:
343x 437 mmDescription:
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Line engraving with watercolour on paper. A mango branch with flowers, fruit and leaves, cross-section of fruit and flower. Mango was also a source of timber. Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. M. Holmes: Mangifera indica L. N. O. 53. The title is transcribed in Nagari, Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet, it reads; Ma?. Latin. . . . Malab. Amb?. . . . Bram. . . . Arab. Reede tot Drakestein, Henrik Adriaan van. (1683). Hortus Indicus Malabaricus. Amsterdam. Vol. 4. tab. 2
Bibliographic Info:
Reede tot Drakestein, Henrik Adriaan van. (1683). Hortus Indicus Malabaricus. Amsterdam. Vol. 4.
