Pen and ink drawings of two varieties of citrus, labelled D1 and D2. Each variety is shown with the full fruit and a corresponding cross section. LC: 'Regne Vegetal / D1. Matum citreum multiforme, idem citrum dissectum jusque semina page 79 et 77 / D2. Lima rotunda scabiosa page 339 / tire de l'hesperides & voyez la feuille la feuille avec la L' A &'. The page numbers alongside each illustration are those on which the illustrations appear in the published work 'Hesperides sive de malorvm avreorvm cvltvra et vsv libri quatuor' by Giovanni Baptista Ferrari, published in Rome in 1646. See the reference to the illustrations traced by Jean Verbrugge on the previous folio page 42
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watercolour painting (technique). watercolour (paint). laid paper