Catalogue of the Botanical Art Collection at the Hunt Institute
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Accession Number: 6331.1515
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: ''Avicennia nitida''
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Avicennia germinans (Linnaeus) Stearn, Verbenaceae
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Medium: watercolor
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 35 x 24
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Notes: "Presumably this icon was painted in 1793 or 1794, when Mociño traveled with an artist in southern Veracruz, but the format and meticulous detail are those of the many West Indian subjects done by the artist Echeverría in 1795–96." 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. 534.
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