Garden Gardinia or Cape jasmine (Gardenia augusta (L.) Merr.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flowers and fruit. Coloured line engraving.
- Date:
- [1686]
- Reference:
- 16263i
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About this work
Description
Oil from flowers of Cape jasmine is used in perfumery, the flowers are used to scent tea and the fruits give a yellow dye
Publication/Creation
[Amsterdam], [1686]
Physical description
1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 33.4 x 41.4 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Tsjéru-Mullà Lat. ... Mal. ... Arab.
Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. Holmes: "Gardenia florida L. Rubiaceae 84"
Title transcribed in 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
Reference
Wellcome Collection 16263i
Type/Technique
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores