Album of 70 Asian fruit paintings

Title Variants

Alternative: Collection of 70 water color paintings of fruits
Alternative: Fruits de Chine

Related Titles

Series: Dumbarton Oaks Digitization Project, Garden and Landscape Studies

By

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

[between 1800 and 1899?]

Notes

Fruit names appear in Chinese characters and romanized Chinese and Malay, and sometimes also in Latin, Dutch, Portuguese or Spanish. Some words also appear in Arabic script, possibly arabicized Malay?

Devised title.

Date unknown, but assumed to be 19th century.

The presence of Malay, Dutch, and Portuguese words in addition to the Chinese fruit names suggests that these watercolors may have been painted in Malaysia, Sumatra, or elsewhere in Southeast Asia where these various cultures intermixed during the period of European colonization of the East Indies.

Seventy watercolor paintings of Asian fruits, most of which are labeled with the fruit's name in Chinese and sometimes another language. The artist is not identified.

Interspersed in the final 12 leaves of the album are various drawings, mostly pencil sketches of landscapes or figures. Some of the drawings are drawn directly on the album leaves while others are glued into the album.

Subjects

19th century , Asia , Botanical illustration , Fruit , Identification , Pictorial works , Southeast Asia , Watercolor painting

Language

Dutch

Identifiers

OCLC: 847139004