Watercolours of eight varieties of seeds and nuts, numbered 1-8. LC: 'Regne Vegetal/ signed by the artist: 'Ducq' pxt / 1.Carniolaria / 2.3. Coeurs de St Thomas, # sa noir, blanchatre depouillee de sa coque / 3. Noix tonca avce son ecorsse, d'une odeur suave pour meller avce le tabac / 4. Noix …/ 5. Gland d'un grande chene appelle serris [sic] / 6i. Enveloppe platte du cour de St Thomas / 7. Noix de Virginie, Mr le Baron Charles de Croeser, fils mon neveu, m'eu a apporte quelque unes d'angleterre / 8. noire... / nota, en anglois les grosses noix s'appellent filbuts, les moiennes Walnuts, et les petits telles que les avelines nuts'. Plant Kingdom / 1. Carniolaria / 2. 'Heart of St Thomas' (St Thomas bean or Entada phaseoloides), # white, black [on the outside], whitish when the shell is removed' / 3. Tonka nut (Dipteryx odorata), with bark, sweet smell of tobacco / 4. nut or seed / 5. acorn from a large cerris oak, (Quercus cerris, the English vernacular name is Turkey oak) / 6. Flat 'plate' of the 'heart of St Thomas' (St Thomas bean or Entada phaseoloides) / 7. Virginia nuts [?] peanuts, Mr le Baron Charles de Croeser, son of my nephew, bought for me from England / 8. 'black' / in English the big nuts are called filberts (Hazelnuts), the medium ones are Walnuts, and the little ones are like the filberts nuts'
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watercolour painting (technique). watercolour (paint). laid paper