Pen and ink drawings of four varieties of citrus, labelled E, G, H, I. The full fruit is shown growing on the branch, alongside a corresponding cross section. The illustration labelled 'F' is on the preceeding folio. LC: 'Regne Vegetal / E. Aurantium crispofolio page 589 / G. Aurantium striatum page 401 / H. Aurantium stellatum et Roeum page 395 / I. Aurantium callosum page 411 / tire de l'hesperides & voyez la feuille avec 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