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Group of Six Palm Trees (Todda-pana)

Creator: Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
RHEEDE TOT DRAKESTEIN, Hendrik Adrian van.
Group of Six Palm Tree (Todda-pana) engravings.
Amsterdam, Sumptibus viduae Joannis van Someren, haeredum Joannis van Dyck, Henrici & viduae Theodori Boom 1678-1703

The Hortus Indicus is the first comprehensive Flora of the East Indies, containing the first illustrations of a great number of tropical and suptropical plants and fruits and one of the first major natural history works to make extensive use of Arabic Botanical nomenclature. “One of the most celebrated of pre-Linnean books...an important contribution to the Botany and Ethnobotany of Southern India” (Blunt and Stearn The Art of Botanical Illustration p. 153). Rheede was the colonial governor of Malabar on the south-west coast of India and, when not occupied with official duties, an enthusiastic botanist and investigator of the Indian sub-tropical flora. Initially he encouraged local people to collect plants for him and employed learned Brahmins to supply information. The plates were drawn by Matteus A. St. Joseph and engraved by B. Stoopendael. They include the Sanskrit, Arabic and Malalam names of the plants, as well as the Latin.

Six copper engraved double-page plates of palm trees, with later hand-colouring, from Hortus Indicus Malabaricus. Framed and glazed, overall size: 43cm by 52cm by 2cm.
These 17th century engravings are presented in handmade gold leaf frames.

Nissen 1625; Pritzel 7585.

More Information

Documentation:	Ample Provenance
Origin:	Netherlands
Period:	Pre 18th Century
Materials:	copper engravings with hand-colouring on paper
Condition:	Good.
Creation Date:	1678
Styles / Movements:	Other
Book References:	Nissen 1625; Pritzel 7585.
Dealer Reference #:	113269
Incollect Reference #:	739914

Dimensions

W.	20.47 in;	H.	16.93 in;	D.	0.79 in;
W.	52 cm;	H.	43 cm;	D.	2 cm;

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