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A PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY ENGRAVINGS OF INDIAN FAUNA
A PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY ENGRAVINGS OF INDIAN FAUNA
India, circa 1890
A pair of late nineteenth century engravings of tropical flora and fauna from the Malabar coast India, taken from Hortus Malabaricus by Hendrik van Rheede. Now hand coloured.
Rheede was governor of the Dutch colony of Malabar on the south-west coast of India from 1669 to 1676 and from 1684 the chief representative of the Dutch East India Company in India. When not occupied by official duties Rheede was an enthusiastic botanist and investigator of Indian sub-tropical flora. He compiled this work with the help of several Dutch officials, an Italian Catholic missionary Father Mattheus à St. Joseph (who did many of the drawings),a Protestant missionary, native doctors and princes. The engravings were done by B.Stoopendael. Once completed, the works were sent back to Holland where the botanists Jan Commelin and Arnold Steyn added notes and published the works between 1678 - 1693.
Height 45.00cm
Width 53.00cm
India, circa 1890
A pair of late nineteenth century engravings of tropical flora and fauna from the Malabar coast India, taken from Hortus Malabaricus by Hendrik van Rheede. Now hand coloured.
Rheede was governor of the Dutch colony of Malabar on the south-west coast of India from 1669 to 1676 and from 1684 the chief representative of the Dutch East India Company in India. When not occupied by official duties Rheede was an enthusiastic botanist and investigator of Indian sub-tropical flora. He compiled this work with the help of several Dutch officials, an Italian Catholic missionary Father Mattheus à St. Joseph (who did many of the drawings),a Protestant missionary, native doctors and princes. The engravings were done by B.Stoopendael. Once completed, the works were sent back to Holland where the botanists Jan Commelin and Arnold Steyn added notes and published the works between 1678 - 1693.
Height 45.00cm
Width 53.00cm