Catalogue of the Botanical Art Collection at the Hunt Institute
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Accession Number: 6331.1018
Artist Name: SESSÉ & MOCIÑO: attributed to Echeverría y Godoy, Atanasio
Life Span: (fl.1787–1803)
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Gender: Male
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Credit: The Torner Collection of Sessé and Mociño Biological Illustrations, Courtesy of Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Title: ''Prockia?''
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Trichostigma octandrum (Linnaeus) H. Walter, Phytolaccaceae
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Medium: watercolor
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 35 x 24
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Notes: "The illustration is a good one, suggesting in its technique some of the plates made by Echeverría in the West Indies in the later years of the Expedition." according to Rogers McVaugh, Botanical Results of the Sessé & Mociño Expedition (1787–1803): VII. A Guide to Relevant Scientific Names of Plants (Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 2000, p. 432.
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