A palm tree (Iriartella setigera (Mart.) H. Wendl.) in fruit in Guyana. Watercolour by E.A. Goodall, 1846.

  • Goodall, Edward A.
Date:
[1846]
Reference:
21774i
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Previous title, replaced April 2024 : A palm tree in fruit. Watercolour after C. Goodall, 1846.

Description

The painting shows a slender, small palm with large internodes and bearing a crown of four pinnate leaves and two, infrafoliar, long-peduncle infructescences. There are no stilt roots. The leaf bases are depicted with short, dark bristles. The shape of the leaflets is rhomboidal. The peduncles appear to have three closely appressed peduncular bracts. The fruits are ovoid and red at maturity. The details of the sketch are sufficient to determine the palm as I. setigera, which may be solitary and may not always have obvious stilt roots (A. Henderson, The palms of the Amazon, Oxford University Press 1995)

Publication/Creation

[Serge Hill, Hertfordshire], [1846]

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1 painting : watercolour

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The verso is uninscribed, unlike the other watercolours in series with this one

References note

Scott Zona and William Schupbach, 'The Guyanese palms of Edward Angelo Goodall', Palms, 2024 (in press)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 21774i

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