Fruit of the cacao tree and a Guatemalan almond tree. Drawing by Thomas Malie, 1730.

  • Malie, Thomas, approximately 1700-approximately 1789.
Date:
1730
Reference:
11916i
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1730.

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1 drawing : pen and brown ink and grey wash ; sheet 37.5 x 47.9 cm

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Cacao & amygdalis similis Guantimalensis 1730. Lettering continues with a description of the cacao plant, stating that it grows best in Caracas

Notes

The other side of the sheet bears a drawing of the vanilla plant

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Thomas Malie (Mallie, Malié) was Surgeon-General to H.M. Forces in the West Indies: see obituary in The gentleman's magazine, 1789, vol. 59, pt. 1, p. 467

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Wellcome Collection 11916i

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