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Image number: RS.10736
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‘The Mangoostan’
Date
1806
Creator
Thomas Medland (1755 - 1827, British) , Engraver
After
William Alexander (1767 - 1816, British) , Painter
Object type
Library reference
26670
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 276mm
width (print): 212mm
width (print): 212mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of the purple mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana) the fruit of a tropical evergreen native to Southeast Asia. Showing the buds, flower and fruit of the plant on a single sprig, with two details of the cut and peeled fruit.
Plate 11 from the book A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793...to which is annexed an account of a journey, made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation...southern Africa...by John Barrow (London, 1806).
Printed below: “Drawn by W.Alexander Engraved by T.Medland The Mangoostan. Published June 4, 1806, by Messrs.Cadell & Davies, Strand, London”.
John Barrow’s voyage to southern Vietnam (Cochinchina) was undertaken as the preliminary to Lord Macartney’s Embassy to China
John Barrow (1764-1848) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1805.
Plate 11 from the book A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793...to which is annexed an account of a journey, made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation...southern Africa...by John Barrow (London, 1806).
Printed below: “Drawn by W.Alexander Engraved by T.Medland The Mangoostan. Published June 4, 1806, by Messrs.Cadell & Davies, Strand, London”.
John Barrow’s voyage to southern Vietnam (Cochinchina) was undertaken as the preliminary to Lord Macartney’s Embassy to China
John Barrow (1764-1848) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1805.
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