Watercolour painting of cotton bolls on a branch. Cotton tree with its fruit, the dried branches are kept in a cabinet'. It is not clear which 'cabinet' is being referred to. See A/RV/V2/53 for references to the 'Natural History Cabinet of the Ecole Centrale of the Departement de la Lys, Bruges', and to the 'Collection, which I bought in the sale of the cabinet of Mr Hergodts' . The current botanical name is Gossypium arboreum