Article ID: CBB279891342

Three botanical watercolours by Richard Bradley (c.1688–1732) including of coffee and cinnamon (2023)

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Three watercolour paintings by Richard Bradley, depicting plants from the East Indies and southern Africa, are described. The images of Coffea arabica (coffee) (Rubiaceae), Cinnamomum verum (cinnamon) (Lauraceae) and a southern African succulent, Cylindrophyllum calamiforme (Aizoaceae), are bound into contemporary volumes now held at the British Library, London. Also included in the cinnamon watercolour are two images of Sri Lankan butterflies. This paper sets these watercolours in the context of Bradley’s other paintings and colour illustrations. These three images, hitherto unpublished, were probably painted during Bradley’s visit to Holland in 1714.

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Authors & Contributors
Dickenson, Victoria J. V.
Bleichmar, Daniela
Fehrenbach, Frank
Gaskell, Roger
Jorink, Eric
Kelley, Theresa M.
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Colonial Latin American Review
Environment and History
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Nature
Publishers
American University
Johns Hopkins University Press
Princeton University Press
University of California Press
University of Notre Dame
WBOOKS
Concepts
Painters and painting
Botany
Scientific illustration
Science and art
Natural history
Visual representation; visual communication
People
Bradley, Richard
Taylor White
Banks, Joseph
Barbauld, Anna Letitia
Bartram, John
Catesby, Mark
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
16th century
20th century, early
Early modern
15th century
Places
Netherlands
East Indies
England
Africa
Great Britain
India
Institutions
McGill University (Canada)
British East India Company
British Library
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
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