Tree cotton (Gossypium arboreum): flowering and fruiting stem with caterpillar. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1807, after M. Merian.

  • Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717.
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20 June 1807
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25551i
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Tree cotton (Gossypium arboreum): flowering and fruiting stem with caterpillar. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1807, after M. Merian. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The cotton plant has many uses; it yields cooking oil, a possible male contraceptive and a yellow dye

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London : published as the Act directs by J. Wilkes, 20 June 1807.

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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 24.8 x 19 cm

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Gossypium. Gossypium religiosum; or cotton tree. M. Merian delt. J. Pass sculpt.

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Wellcome Collection 25551i

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