A hut and its inhabitants with palm trees in Guyana. Watercolour by E.A. Goodall, 1846.

  • Goodall, Edward A.
Date:
Nov.r 12th 1846
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21772i
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Previous title, replaced April 2024 : Indian hut with palm trees in Guyana. Watercolour after C.A. Goodall, 1846.

Description

A pair of very tall palms, no stilt roots, unarmed, with broad leaflets. There may be horn-shaped unopened inflorescences in the crown. A crownshaft present. As the palms are depicted growing near habitations, they may be cultivated. There is insufficient detail in the painting to identify the palms. This is the only composition among Goodall's paintings in the Wellcome collection that has been published, as the frontispiece to Goodall (loc. cit.)

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Serge Hill [Hertfordshire], Nov.r 12th 1846

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1 painting : watercolour

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Indian hut at Drio, British Guiana. From a sketch by E.A. Goodall. Serge Hill Nov.r 12th 1846

References note

E.A. Goodall, Sketches of Amerindian Tribes 1841–1843, with an introduction and notes by M.N. Menezes, London: British Museum Publications Ltd. for the National Commission for Research Materials on Guyana, 1977 (British Library, Additional Mss. 16939, f. 1)
Scott Zona and William Schupbach, 'The Guyanese palms of Edward Angelo Goodall', Palms, 2024 (in press)

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Wellcome Collection 21772i

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