Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10113
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Male hemp plant
Date
1804
Creator
Richard Reeve (1780, British) , Printmaker
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X99/4
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 270mm
width (print): 210mm
width (print): 210mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical studies of Indian hemp, the male plant of Cannabis sativa, including a detached leaf, flower buds, stamen and other details. Seven figures lettered A-N.
Plate 2 in the monograph On the cultivation and preparation of hemp; as also of an article produced in various parts of India...by Robert Wissett (London, 1804).
Inscribed “Pl.2 Reeve Scpt.”.
Robert Wissett (d.1820), Clerk to the Committee of Warehouses of the East India Company, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1801.
Plate 2 in the monograph On the cultivation and preparation of hemp; as also of an article produced in various parts of India...by Robert Wissett (London, 1804).
Inscribed “Pl.2 Reeve Scpt.”.
Robert Wissett (d.1820), Clerk to the Committee of Warehouses of the East India Company, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1801.
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