Samuel Davis, 1757–1819, British, The Mangosteen Fruit, Malacca, 1793
- Title:
The Mangosteen Fruit, Malacca
- Date:
- 1793
- Medium:
- Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 7 1/8 × 25 1/4 inches (18.1 × 64.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
In graphite, lower edge: "he Mangosteen - Malacca Augt 1793" -; and also in graphite, descriptions of the fruit, etc; verso: in same [?] handwriting, in green/blue crayon, center: The No. of divisions varies, but/ the no. in any one fruit always/ corresponds with the no. of the points of the/ "star" of the outside end; in graphite, ll: J89 [encircled]
Watermark: a small portion of a Fleur-de-Lis
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.211
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- botanical subject | fruit | text
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8900
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Holly Shaffer, Adapting the eye, An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2011, p. 36, no. 139, V2359 (YCBA)
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