Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.9341
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    "Capsicum fructu oblongo rugoso..."

    Date
    ca.1730
    Creator
    Jacob van Huysum (1682 - 1745, Dutch) , Painter
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 377mm
    width (painting): 268mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
          > Horticulture
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Content object
    nature
       > plant
    Description
    Botanical study of a pepper plant, Capsicum, with long red peppers and unripe green fruit.

    Description of the specimen inscribed in ink: "Capsicum fructu recurvo rubro oblongo rugosa apice, Rand. n.10." ['Pepper fruit red wrinkled, elongated curved tip']. Not signed.

    Jacob van Huysum (1688 – 1740) Dutch botanical painter was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > Netherlands
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