A plant (Antidesma sylvestris Lam.): large and small branches with flowers and fruit and separate fruit. Coloured line engraving.

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[1685]
Reference:
16031i
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A plant (Antidesma sylvestris Lam.): large and small branches with flowers and fruit and separate fruit. Coloured line engraving. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Bignay = Antidesma bunius (L.) Sprengel

Publication/Creation

[Amsterdam], [1685]

Physical description

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 34.0 x 42.8 cm

Lettering

Máil-Kómbi ... Óna ... ... Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. Holmes: "Antidesma sylvestris Lam. 151" Title transcribed in Nagari, Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet

References note

See further: K.S. Manilal (ed.), Botany and history of Hortus Malabaricus, Rotterdam, 1980, ch. 2 by M. Fournier, pp. 6-21
J. Heniger, Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakestein (1636-1691) and Hortus Malabaricus, Rotterdam, 1986

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Wellcome Collection 16031i

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